Shan's far from one of hip-hop's MVPs and I think he knows that as well as anyone, but this makes for a better album than many of those by much more talented MCs because it's coming from an unusual place of one man versus the world in the aftermath of the BDP beef. Even through the braggadocio tracks there are undertones of self-loathing, which rise to the surface now and then when Shan deals with the whole thing directly. And 80s rap is generally more exciting than the more convoluted stuff that developed subsequently.
Choice cuts: Jane Stop This Crazy Thing, Down by Law, Another One to Get Jealous Of
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