| tracklisting |
| 1. Freddie B-R-U-Know |
| 2. Pro Audio |
| 3. Miss Bonita |
| 4. Occupational Therapy feat.
Playdough of ill harmonics |
| 5. Updated & Still Hated |
| 6. Comp USA |
| 7. Last Dance |
| 8. Null & Void feat. Lorca's Black
Eye |
| 9. Hall Minor |
| 10. Rock The
Beat Within Ya Heart feat. Sev Statik & Sintax the
Terrific |
| 11. Not For
Profit |
| 12. Earl Grey feat. Sivion of The
Phat K.A.T.S. |
| 13. Coat Of
Arms |
| 14. The Next Level |
| 15. The Monitor |
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| We then get to one of the best
songs on here: "Updated
& Still Hated", where the beat
is remotely bouncy, the jazz while not slow, still
cool, and the lyrics are talking about the art of
hip hop, so there's nothing wrong with this that
we could point out. "Comp
USA" stays as good, with a very
low and hallowed beat, that also appreciatively
avoids the monotonous, as Harry plays around with
the available elements. Freddie in the mean time
continues his spitting verses that often enough
are only loosely connected to the title and hook.
Here he rhymes about those internet emcees, and
how they try to take advantage of Bruno. He's continues
to face a group of people to criticize them on "Last
Dance", where someone sounding like
manCHILD helps out on the hook. Freddie says "you
couldn't come correct with instructions and a blueprint"
to continue to say "only way you rip a mic,
if the mesh is perforated", while the beat
in the back has changed in the mean time. |
| We need to speed up things a little
bit, so we mention the good "Null
& Void" (feat. Lorca's Black
Eye), where lyrically we touch upon similar waters,
as does "Rock The
Beat Within Ya Heart", where Sev
Statik and Sintax The Terrific (both fellow Deepspace5'ers)
spit their verses, with Sintax talking about how
he groups up with his enemies, while it remains
unspoken if to destroy, change or understand them.
The beat on here leaves us under-impressed, what
we can't say about "Not
For Profit" that plunges on with
a cool jazz feel, while Freddie laments about his
empty pockets. Finally, there's one song on here,
where Freddie provided the beat himself, and he
offers the marine sailor vibe of "The
Monitor", that he again uses to
spit braggadocios verses, as well as he's addressing
a virtual audience, ordering it to nod their heads,
while keeping the song short though. |
| Harry Krum however also knows how
to do a weak beat, as we can hear on "Pro
Audio", where only the drum succeeds
in being special and able to attract the attention
away from the weak guitar. And as often this almost
latino flavor worked properly, on this here it fails.
While "Hall Minor"
is good, it could have been better, but "Coat
Of Arms" just doesn't appeal too
much, despite it getting your neck bouncing. Then
there's also "The
Next Level", a string heavy offering,
that once again is nothing we should criticize,
but feel untempted to big up. |
| This record is surprisingly un-christian
through much of the duration, considering that it's
a Uprok release. That however is neither something
to be glad about, nor to criticize. It certainly
gives the record an appeal to people of a circle
that don't want anything preachy to listen to. And
considering that the spirit must have been always
present, it might not even matter, that Bruno is
not constantly talking about his most high. Instead
he keeps his songs steadily hip hop, with bouncy
beats and boasting words, coming through in both
areas and giving us something we like. |
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