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| tracklisting |
| 1. Intro |
| 2. On & Poppin |
| 3. What If |
| 4. Couch Potato (Sitcom) |
| 5. Bad Credit |
| 6. People |
| 7. Oh! |
| 8. Interlude |
| 9. 7 Degrees |
| 10. Set It |
| 11. War |
| 12. Over-Under |
| 13. Stand Still |
| 14. E Productions |
| 15. Outro |
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| This album is in so many ways so very average. It uses many previously used samples. It talks about many topics talked about before. It completely fails to do something new. But nevertheless, the album is kinda good. Not good in a mindblowing, constantly rewinding, telling everybody
about it kind of way. But still good. In many ways good because it's not wack. The fact that much of this album has been done by someone else before. Be it the 'I'm broke' song "Bad Credit" or the imagining a perfect utopia "What If".
But both are done well, especially "Bad Credit" offers some creating flipping of the approach. And that makes this good. That and the fact that the beats are done well and the rhymes neither lack in presentation nor actual writing. So this is a
good 'been there done that'. |
| Also the chiming guitar on "On & Poppin", where a frustration is running through the song, that does not end in despair, but in the urge to do something. The presented humor on the TV show title reciting (now, we haven't
heard anyone do that before.... uhm) "Couch Potato (Sitcom)" gives us a couple of chuckles, while the contrasting seriousness of "People" or "War" balances the album. Especially the latter is going deep with a melancholy beat, that fits the 'pouring
out some liquor' vibe of the song. At the same time E3 do feel the need to just flow and rep. So there's the "Set It" or "Oh!" over a harder and good beat, or there's a story telling reminiscing, a relationship analyzing "7
Degrees", where the snakes are checked. |
| On the shrug note, there's "Stand Still", a song where the rhyming gets hype, where the beat gets mainstreamy bouncy, but the cats urge you to not bounce to it. "E Productions" makes up for it again, as it's
showcasing a cutting horn, while the live bass is a little too much all over the place. Again there's more flowing and repping on here, before the "Outro" wraps this up with some shouts. |
| What then basically is what you're offered on this album. As said, a record that struggles to really give you anything new. You can even argue that all it does are tried and tested, typical rap concepts. And E3 could have easily failed with those, but as the three men manage to put
their stamp on things, it worked out well for 'em. Or for us, as we get to listen to something we like to listen to. |
| review: tadah |
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