Gangster rapper Big Dank from Little Rock, Arkansas, tells us without fear that the hood raised him and on the cover he seems to be able to walk on the waters (biblical reference) of the Arkansas River in front of what was at the time the city skyline, dressing flamboyantly in what could easily be a crystal-clear homage to the Grove Street gang, if it weren't an anachronism.
The album is more g-funk than mobb, in any case it looks to the West Coast, with all that entails. If you're not particularly fond of that kind of sound, the production might not even tell you anything and it doesn't matter because it wasn't born to impress and manages to do its job to the end without any slip-ups. The producer credited as ROE makes a good effort together with a couple of other guys who, like the guests of the tape, are part of the same label, the local Pup Dog Records.
J-Mac comes down a couple of times to join Big Dank on the mic and few years later he will release his own CD on the same label, returning the favor and taking the boy on some tracks. In the midst of a lot of gangsta rap living average, the ballad "Upside Down" is noteworthy, where ROE inserts a liquid sax to accompany a heavy bass in support of the author's bars and Idora's singing, which obviously pays homage to Diana Ross. Too bad that in the same period is released a song that uses the same chorus as Diana, performed by the Legends MC Lyte & Missy Elliott, and that goes so well that from that moment on Sean "Diddy" Combs will be convinced that he "invented" the remix.
Rating: 6/10.
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