Above the Ground
This is your standard stream-of-consciousness rap that anyone who
travels on the CTA in Chicago is familiar with. There is unfortunately
no lyric sheet, which makes the mushy rapping on most parts of the album
difficult to understand. "The Blood Cries," a song on brotherhood,
has a techno beat which works well, but I find the brassy industrial sounds
on "Dying to Live" to be annoying. There is minimal music in the background
thoughout most of the album, which makes it sound underproduced compared
to some of the more recent rap out there like K II S and T-Bone.
Some fans of their quality second release may be disappointed here. --
Shari Lloyd
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