Very consistent with some fresh cloud rap influenced vibey sounds, but there is nothing I love and some songs, often due to the vocals (like the chorus on 'G.O. Style'), that I don't like enough. If these instrumentals had rappers over the top that I felt more then this could go to the next level for me.
Beats: ★★★★
Rapping/Bars: ★★★
Hooks: ★★★
Best Tracks: Shoot the Dice, Spoken Jewelz, Summa Time, Green Ova Diamond
'Don't Quit Your Day Job!' is an underrated and under discussed album as far as '00 great albums go, and it's nice to finally have a proper follow up to it. Why it's taken this long? I don't know either. Perhaps Consequence will let us know as he's promoting the project.
Unfortunately this is a very safe album and is not worth the wait or a worthy follow up to the aforementioned album. Cons is fine, but just talks through the bars too often, lacking that energy of some of his best songs, and the production is the same - fine. It surprises me that artists who have been in the game for so long don't take some more risks with their creations. And as I always say with EP length projects like these, if you aren't gonna give us much music, the expectations should be for highly quality. The album begins well, but meanders through for too much of the album.
Best Tracks: Can't Give Up, No Apologies
I'd only heard the instrumentation version before this as I'm a big Televangel fan. I didn't even realise it was an 'instrumental version ' and was originally with vocals from the duo Greenova South. The rapping is enjoyable enough from Squadda B and Pepperboy and they're helped by the strong features seen on two of the best songs, 'Soul Blinded' and 'Lamborghini Dreams'. The strength is the instrumentation though.
Beats: ★★★★
Rapping/Bars: ★★★☆
Hooks: ★★★☆
Best Tracks: G.O. Sound, Find a Way, I Miss Them Days, Lamborghini Dreams, Soul Blinded
I checked this out after enjoying 'Kome Ryde With Us', also produced by Televangel, but this ain't quite as good. The production isn't as noteworthy, so then the rapping becomes more of a focus, and it doesn't tick the boxes. One of the rappers in particular, Pepperboy, has a style that grates more here. The features helped elevate their debut too more than they do here. If you enjoy the emo-rapping style that many rappers use these days you'll like this more.
Beats: ★★★☆
Rapping/Bars: ★★☆
Hooks: ★★☆
Best Tracks: Work Till I Die, Made My Mind Up
I give this points for trying something different, and I did enjoy the journey, but it didn't completely work. A person in the cinemas behind me sighed anytime a song was starting. She should've been sighing at herself for going in blind. The fact that it was a musical isn't the reason it didn't work though, but the songs do take up the running time limiting the amount the story can be moved forward. By the time it was reaching the end, I knew there wasn't ample time for the third act that I was hoping for. We don't actually see the famed partnership of Harley and Joker in this either that may cause some fans of the usual canon to be disgruntled. I was hoping when Joker escaped that it set up the sequel for that in some way. I had same feeling others have had about the ending. Was it in some way a response to the lunatic left for their deranged response to the first film? A kind of 'I told you so'.