Three years after it was extremely popular, gangsta rap is still dominant in mainstream hip-hop, on the other coast. And it's from here, from New York, that Ice-T collects the biggest ideas to design his album number six, which should be a sort of comeback album for him, after having seriously undertaken an acting career.
The lyrics are the same as the previous CD with a few variations, the music chosen by DJ Ace and Ice-T is flat and dull, sounds bad for 73 minutes. It sounds like the rhythms haven't been updated since 1992 and the samples come from the usual names, you might guess them even without listening to the record: Isley Brothers, Kool & the Gang, Lyn Collins, the ubiquitous "UFO" by ESG, plus tributes to Method Man, Prodigy and Biggie Smalls. The few highlights come from some of the less-employed producers on the album, such as E-A-Ski & CMT ("Where the Shit Goes Down") and Big Rich & Mad Rome ("Inside of a Gangsta"). Not essential.
Rating: 5/10.
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