Three years after their debut, Organized Konfusion released their second studio album. The duo produces almost the entire project leaving some beats to Buckwild and Rockwilder, while O-Cee and Q-Tip are the only guests.
From the pens held by Larry "Prince Po" Baskerville and Troy "Pharoahe Monch" Jamerson come out some of the best rap lyrics of the season, close to the abstract and that make up battle raps with topics that fade around stress, racism, girls, poverty, socio-conscious, violence and personal extracts. Both MCs have excellent dynamic, energetic, lively flows, Prince Po is a solid rapper, while Monch offers an impressive technical effort, among the freshest of the year: the union of a broad vocabulary, good rhyming patterns, competent lyrics and a remarkable rapping style, allows them to grind an industrial quantity of quotable lines and to stand out among the best hip-hop artists of the period.
The production rests its foundations on hard midtempo drums and honest seventies samples: the sound chosen by the group reflects the jazzy and gloomy one typical of the time in the East Coast, on which the interpreters perform very well making several extraordinary and excellent tunes. The Source magazine chooses Monch's verse from "Stray Bullet" as Hip-Hop Quotable and it's a completely shareable choice. Released by Hollywood BASIC with Elektra distribution, the album struggles to access the charts (top 30 in the rap one) and remains a pearl of the underground circuit: it's undoubtedly one of the best hip-hop albums of the nineties.
Rating: 8.5/10.
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