11. Fear

These cats have been doing hip hop for some years now. And you can tell. As this albums sound like done some years ago. For some reason the name Double X(X Posse) came to mind, while we listened. Not because they blatantly bite from that dope group (with two albums you should have in your collection), but, ....., well, just because the name came to mind.

"Door To Darkness" is showing the whole in the wall to us, while this side of the opening is not any less gloomy and spooky as the other side, with Rekks and Psychlones spitting some gritty words in the face of the knob, turning the angles, and finally paving the way for "Insanity". Now here we can dig out our X Posse comparison again, with the bass is just somewhat sounding like..... well, you know. However, "Insanity" is starting with the line "my father told me I was worth more when I'm dead / now it's suicidal thoughts that filling my head". They then continue on to talk about the means to commit such ending, before other reality needles are talked about, that can spun one's brain fuse to burn. The beat remains bare, keeping that bass and a simply drum, only adding voice patches at times.

"Rockin The Headboard (Clothes Minded)" is still in that same style, somewhat. There's a shrieking sound, with a low bass in the back, and a shuffling in the front. And in a way this is cool, but at the same time, we are just not used to such gritty bareness anymore. What shouldn't be a complaint though, as we too often were asking for something like this again. There's a keyboard sound on "Introspection", and you know how we don't like keyboards sounds around here. So this gets the ignorant remark, while the rest on here would have actually been cool. The flow picks up speed, and real thoughts, giving us an exposing offering of their desires and plans. The guitar lick on "Worth The Weight" is part of the beat that is giving the Entity the chance to do some 'coming about' rhymes on this title track, this taking us through the steps of their history.

The heavy metal guitar on "Carpool Tunnel Syndrome" is tempting us to hit the skip button, what then takes us to "Graveyard Shift", which is a Rekks solo track. By the way, Rekks also did all the beats on here, and the beat on this track is very slow, and features a keyboard sound. Luckily it's only used seldom and hidden in the back, so we can easily focus on the other elements. This sounds so much like a mad man effort, that the beat is tampering the impression we get from the lyrics so much, the punchlines sound Charlie Manson insane. So we progress to "Mic Surgery", where more keyboard bleeps are spoiling the impression. Lyrically this goes for the braggadocios rhymes, however, also throwing in some non battling verses. Psychlone gets a solo too on "Armed To The Teeth", that starts with a nifty movie dialogue sample, to then again going very early 90s. This track is one of the stronger, despite it going for some story telling psycho something.

Now "Crazy In The Clutch" is again doing something started eleven years ago. And it sounds good, we just would have rather heard it eleven years ago. However, this is another one of the cool tracks on here, what can't be said about "Fear", that is a little cheesy with the church bells, while the percussion's and hit on wood sound effect are working much better though. We are then treated to some guests, namely Specs and JayLC, who are featured on "Caught In The Cross Fire", that does little extra, compared to what we have already heard on this record.

See, this is not bad, but it also is not too good, just somewhat unimpressive. But that might be simply due to it being stuck in some old times styles, without probably trying to recreate that area. With struggling to find it's own and fresh style, considering the topics, the beats and the flows, all three entities are done showing that these cats are not some hop on the band wagon dudes, but that there went some nurturing into their music. Still, this seems to have been grown on early 90s soil, and people just forgot to harvest it on time.