This album will have hip hop heads line up to get into French classes. This album will have hip hop journalist pretend they understand French (excluding this one, who knows a little more French than the bare minimum, along with knowing the words to "Frère Jacque"). Nevertheless the shear dopeness of this album, will have you eagerly listen, like an illiterate watches a non-dubbed, but subtitled foreign movie, like a Hong Kong flick, or "Doberman". The action is just too intense, and you just know how good this piece is, so while you only get half of what is going on, you are still glued to the screen (or loudspeaker), incapable of putting it to the side. And TTC must be aware of that, them being signed to an English label, them being known as far away as Finland and Japan, where they must face puzzled looks from time to time. So Teki offers us a guide through the album in English on the Big Dada site. But that doesn't make the lyrics to be one of those stupid crooked eyed 3D pictures, where you only see what there is to see, once someone tells you what supposedly is there. Cause in this case, what Teki notes is actually there, cause Teki wouldn't lie to you. Even though he used to be a journalist.

However, it's about time to put the theorising to the side and put the knife to the meat, cause some of you out there look hungry. And there's little doubt that the French cuisine, despite them eating frogs and escargot, is rather delicious. And so is this album, that was prepared by three of the master cooks that the country has to offer. And some of the strength this album has, is actually very much due to TTC being three people, namely Tido Berman, Teki Latex and Cuizinier. It's no case of too many cooks spoil the soup, as one thing TTC is incredible at, is the interaction between their voices. Often enough they don't let each other spit separate verses, but it's more like we stumbled into a conversation, with their saying intertwining.

But what are they talking about? Well, there's "De Pauvres Riches", where the rich people's stupid glorification of poverty and ghetto life is being exposed. There's the complex and twistedness of "Reconstitution", the love letter to the Paris Metro "Subway", where Teki is the rail, Tido the train and Cuizinier the underground gallery. There's however also the rather core topics like dissing wack rappers on "Toi-Même", which is a follow up to "Toi", that was on the "Elémentaire" EP, and there's the reinventing the four cornerstones of this art "Elémentaire", where the four elements of hip hop are flipped into water, air, earth and fire. And now for all those that understand French, they will not only find out that the concepts are clever, but that TTC are three incredibly gifted poets, emcees, as well as speakers, that take their verses to the deepest territories of in depth eloquence. Or something.

But now for those that don't understand French: Even though you don't understand the words, the beats offer so much, that you will not even miss not getting one part of the record. Kinda like your favourite song might not sounds as good mono as it does stereo, but it's still your favourite song. Hence after an incredible bits and pieces intro, we get "Nonscience", which is a stop and go party track, done by Mr. Flash, who's responsible for several tracks on here: like "Teste Ta Compréhension", the reduced "Subway" and the La Caution featuring, somewhat 'Dancing Queen'-ish "Pollution", that, just like "Nonscience" is one of the best tracks on here. The other highlights are the incredible and Tido produced "(Je N'Arrive Pas A) Danser", the DJ Vadim produced and very comic "De Pauvres Riches", the exquisite Dose One and Hi-Tekk Le Receleur featuring "Pas D'Armure", the painful and hurting "En Soulevant Le Couvercle", that was produced by Tacteel and features the poetess Yarah Bravo, and last but not least the spacey "Elémentaire" (produced by Nikkfurie).

So if you've been counting, there are not many tracks on here, that are not highlights, with all the other ones still being ridiculously good. And what further makes this records so damn amazing is, that it is everything you hoped for and expected, without the predictability. Hence you can't imagine TTC to do anything else than something different, creative, a little bit odd, very French, enormously styled, as well as plain and simply dope. And you don't have to imagine anything else, because that's exactly what they do on this album.