It's only right that dope artists release dope records. Or actually records at all. As that's not necessarily always the case. However, the good people of NPO records, return with a full length by their two main hunks in their stable, name Anomos and Stealth. They get to expand their four track taster to a 14 track full course. While the third of a dozen tracks that were reviewed here, are also featured on this record, it's interesting what has changed since back then, when the EP came out.

Things start on the rather melancholy side of the spectrum, with Stealth's "From Here On". Chello is lending his singing voice to the Reble Dainja production, that succeeds with its musical strings, and the complete feel it gives us. Stealth talks about shacking off all the bad vibes that are always surrounding excellence, as he gets rid of envy and jealously with self supporting lyrics, that are like an approving nod to oneself, knowing, that one is on the right path. That shall be allowed, as if the world is trying to drag you down, you don't need to drag yourself down too. It's also Stealth that does "Bombing Of 2G". This strong track, produced by 140 Productions, was already praised in the other review, and it still deserves the same approach. It's then "Say It Loud", where Anomos steps to the mic. This track is saturated with energy, as Lethal Production have put every element into the mix, a track needs to be able to soar high and be apocalyptic enough to have rats leave the crumbling city. Again this track was featured on the four track EP, but "Rapagedon" is all new. And all nice, as Savage Beats are putting together an easy accessible offering, without it popping bubble gums, or doing something blatantly that other names have done better and first. On the guitar Ron Thal is lending his skills to the track, while Stealth is setting things straight, with his lieutenant Haxsaw making sure that all the recruits are saluting and breathing in kicked up dust.

We haven't yet heard too much from Anomos, so his return on "Why Live" is watched attentively. What could have been left dangling as pessimistic rhymes, are flipped into his own proud stance, that does a full circle around the gripping vocal chanting by Markeda P. By now you should have been able to figure out that these cats are not just doing warmed up TV meals. Offerings that get this fad taste of a microwave meal, that is so hot at first, but cools off faster than you can slice small pieces and shovel 'em in your mouth. Then again, the third of the four previously heard tracks, "Hold Up", actually is such a bump along the way.

While Anomos is not the first to do a 'love song' hip hop track, as the sincerity is reflected in his track called "One Chance", it can't be dismissed as an unwanted contribution to an already long list. Also as Low Key is putting a lot of musicality in his beat, and in combination, Anomos' words that go: 'fine without you, better with you', just sound very honest and heartfelt. It's also him that does "What You Got To Say Now", a track that features a Potent Pete production, that is too keyboard heavy, to make it work. Stealth's beat for his own "Tho Dem Dangz" focuses around an interesting drum programming, and with the guitar giving it an atmospheric cloud carpet, this track settles on the appealing side of things. We then reach "Playing No Games", and now have found all four tracks of the "Playing No Games: The EP" on this record here.

The last four tracks belong to Rebel Dainja, at least on the production side of things. And the first of these tracks "Club Crucial" is another thumbs up track, as Anomos is playing narrator of a mystery series show, while Rebel adds cinematic effects to this attention grasping track. A piano opens "No Nonsense", that features the ragga chanting of Khari and Stealth's lyrical skills. While the keyboard strings on here are not totally enjoyed, Rebel Dainja comes correct again on the last Stealth track "Bewarness", with a low drum kick, more natural strings and little details, that make a track immediately seem like it has been done with thought and consideration. This cut is giving us more of Stealth's mixery of braggadocios rhymes, that always remain a combination of observations and clever things said, for reasons of having the other see the Bombers qualities. That seems to be one square yard of the common ground the two emcees Anomos and Stealth walk on. And more of that can be witnessed on the last cut on here: "Last Resort". As said produced by Dainja, and featuring the guitar, played by Ron Thal, and containing a never ending outro, that in actuality is not long enough, as the choir sound is so ill, that no focus and elaboration on it would have been too exaggerated.

As a journalist, having the tendency to throw labels at styles, putting everything in a possibly fitting drawer, it's hard to categorize this album. As we find so many different elements being included and pressed, formed, beaten and chewed into one big self, it's not allowing us to go back and stuff this record in one of the existing compartments, unless there's one called miscellaneous. This album combines the musicality of avant garde hip hop, with the bareness of mainstream underground. It adds the lyrical spitting and battling of the Lyricist Lounge, with the jewels dropping of a conscious movement. And while this does risk to fall through the nets of all followers of any scene, it might be a common field, where everyone could meet, shake hands and listen to the same music. Of course that will not happen, but those who know how well worth one's time and money this record is, those will enjoy this record, from here on....to....