Debut album by James "Jayo Felony" Savage, rapper born in Portsmouth, Virginia, based in San Diego, California. The production is mainly handled by Jam Master Jay and Randy Allen, along with Prodagee Productions, Marlin Wiggins, Nate Motlety, Anthony Pearyer, and Jayo Felony himself.
The disc, personal, doesn't feature guests and plays very strongly on the music made by Jam Master Jay: the producer of Run-DMC provides a very good g-funk soundscape, consisting of midtempo drums, lean, scarce, hard, increasingly tight towards the second half, funky, melodic, mobb and jazz samples, and scattered g-funk synths, lively, sometimes shrill, but always accessible. On these rhythms, close to the boom bap, Jayo Felony offers bars dealing mainly with simple and generic gangsta themes, performed with a slow, smooth and velvety delivery style, which is well suited to the beats.
Released by JMJ and Rush Associated Labels, subsidiaries of Def Jam who were trying to create a lucrative market in the West Coast, the album is distributed by PolyGram and reaches the top 70 of hip-hop / rnb records: it's a cohesive project, consisting of 16 tracks (4 skits) and about three quarters of an hour of listening, which will please g-funk lovers, Jam Master Jay did a great job and Jayo Felony has a good relaxed flow. The best results arrive in the first part of the CD, stand out "The Loc is on His Own", "Homicide" and "Sherm Stick", then towards the end there are songs with less successful rhythms and a less captivating rap, before the title track that closes the album with a nice highlight.
Rating: 7/10.
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