producers: fat jon

Then there's this little state, a little to the north, a little more to the west from where the thing spread, and it found nutritious soil there. One of the group of gardeners that are harvesting all those brilliant sounds are the Five Deez. And with their name being spread quicker than their music, it's rather remarkable that this is only their first album. And a good album it is. Kool, driving, smooth.

After we listen to the "Say Intro" like some voyeurs peeing through the blinds, it's "Latitude" that has the first combination of beats and rhymes reaching our ears. The chorus is completed with scratches, and an echoed choir sound, that is reminding us of the best main ingredient efforts. A little guitar is having this innocently progress, with the lyrics not being on the cute side though. As they are getting the braggadocios, as well as the crap rapper dismissing verses out. While not necessarily bouncy, "Get Dough" or "Ten" can still get you grooving. The content on "Get Dough" gets ironic, as the Deez are doing some serious flossing, with claiming that all the ladies are hanging on their lips in all kinds of ways. "Plasma Avenue" then shows how rhymes on 'reality' can be done in a creative way, with their relevance not being lost.

The track "Omni" is getting quieter. We are directly talked to, or listening in to someone directly being talked to, as the verses are of a style, that could be written in a personal letter. Definitely sadder is "Instruments Of The Trade (The Word)", with the beat keeping a melancholic vibe. The lyrics are backing this up, but at the same time, their unhappiness is addressed. The cut changes completely half way through, giving it a interesting duality. Something that is repeated with "Sugar", where a dialogue is opening the cut, and singing and smooth vibes are completing the enormously produced effort.

Many of the tracks are allowed to progress slowly, with a lot of momentum being built up by keeping the cuts instrumental at the beginning. Like on "Decapitated Orgasms", where the incredible beat is kept going for a longer period, before the words kick in. The track where this is done the most extravagant, if not confusing, is "Sexual For Elizabeth", as we are given some altered singing, with a touching piano, that continues to then totally change when Shingo02 starts to rhyme. Hence this is more than a cut having two parts, but it's rather two different entities being attached to each other.

What a lot of cats will not be ready to appreciate is the musicality, the emotions that are carried merely by the notes, the instruments, the beat, that is often so much more than what such a limited term implies. And that is obviously best captured by instrumentals, that are also present on this album, one of them being "Possibly". This could be considered a dance tune, as it's a little uptempo. And with the conga, the bass, as well as to distinguish chorus part, it's made an organic, soul containing, disco tune. There are two more instrumentals, one being "Even" and the other "Afghanistan Dan's Skating Stand" that's also rather uptempo, and that's taking us through several changes, we get the impression it's telling us a story with several twists and turns.

Hence concluding we shall say that the Five Deez have met all the expectations, with their album being very good, offering you a varied style of beats, that are coupled with worthwhile lyrics, and with neither of them being anything else but dope.