4. Next School MC's

Don't get it twisted and don't turn this off after the cynical "The Spontaneous Anthem". Check out "Spur Of The Moment". A track that is out to prove a point, that exist for the sole purpose to introduce Spon and warm the audience up with rhymes like "I'm too tight too touch and too hype to boo". Next up is the "Reprezen'n" remix, that features Canadian Emcee Saukrates, DJ Drez on the wheels of steal and Xzibit ready to blow up the building, not taking any prisoners, proclaiming "they are not fucking with yours, they are picking up mines". And the beat keeps it dark and layered, but nevertheless kicks. So does "Next School MC's" with a dope little beat, done like all the others by Spontaneous and Relative. A synthetic xylophone line flies from one place to the next like a moth attracted by the light.

The next track "SRV1" features Tash of Tha Alkaholiks and DJ Revolution behind the decks. Not as nice as the tracks leading up to this one. But "Touch This" gets back to the atmospheric space echoes, with a loopy sound effect, that has Spontaneous rhyming in his sing song rhyme flow. Trying to get a little party going "Quiet On The Set!" features one of the two Duck Down twin towers Rock from Heltah Skeltah, and this track only fails because the chorus line "quiet on the set" is getting repeated a little too often. "Wilinupinheya!" does not succeed either, with having too much bubble.

"Grits'n Butta" takes the music back to smooth keyboards and a staccato drum. "Rock The Rhythm" has Spon battle and brag, again over a somewhat restrained, atmospheric and summer night beat. And the same vibe continues on "Disco Technology", while the drums are taking the beat a little more uptempo and also to some club friendly disco claps.

"Transmit" seems to be a track that has to grow on you. Dark again, like some echo of distant space regions, Roman Numeral and Xtrakrdt of Dislexsik share the mic with Spon, while DJ Phyz EP hogs the 1200s. The battle continues on another Labcabincali resembling track called "Wannabaddle?". And then Phillies most beloved female Emcee Bahamadia, now down with the GoodVibe label shows up on "Phone Tag". She still kicks her casual, almost whispered rhyme style. And finally there's "Krush Groove 2000" that takes a lot of the original Run-D.M.C. track, but does little to make it appealing for this last year leading up to the third millennium, even though the legendary Kurtis Blow appears on this cut.

The first impression being completely different to the one that made this reviewer write this, the album slacks at times especially with hooks that are very likely to be overused. The tracks on this album have the potential to really go on the listener's nerve. But with some interesting ideas to elevate and progress hip hop, they nevertheless contain a lot of surprising and enormously enjoyable elements.