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A Couple of Slices
By Ray West & Kool Keith
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ArtistRay West & Kool Keith
TypeAlbum, Collaboration
Released30 October 2015
RYM Rating 3.04 / 5.00.5 from 50 ratings
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mellow, male vocalist
Language English

Track listing

  • 1 Dont Let Em Lie
  • 2 Tank Top
  • 3 Running the Field
  • 4 Pointy Shoes
  • 5 You I Want
  • 6 Destiny's Child
  • 7 Love on a Red a Planet
  • 8 John Shaft
  • 9 I Know a Girl
  • 10 Here to Stay
  • 11 MC Try Outs
    • feat. Dyin Breed
  • 12 Crooked Cop
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Probably one of Keith's most unique albums, as it sees him fuse elements of Reggae and Jazz, but unfortunately it doesn't really amount to anything substantial.
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Key Tracks: "Dont Let Em Lie"; "Crooked Cop"
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  • 2.00 stars 1 Dont Let Em Lie
  • 2.00 stars 2 Tank Top
  • 3.50 stars 3 Running the Field
  • 3.00 stars 4 Pointy Shoes
  • 1.50 stars 5 You I Want
  • 2.50 stars 6 Destiny's Child
  •   7 Love on a Red a Planet
  • 2.00 stars 8 John Shaft
  • 1.50 stars 9 I Know a Girl
  • 2.00 stars 10 Here to Stay
  • 2.00 stars 11 MC Try Outs
  • 2.00 stars 12 Crooked Cop
Opens a skit on live audience, then essential light jazzy rhythm and reggae, spoken reggae skit delivery. Another skit for the second song: circular, tight, essential, simple jazzy rhythm, spoken intro by Kool Keith. The third cut is perhaps the first one where you finally feel some rapping. Maybe. Spoken intro, tight jazzy rhythm, simple, with female soul sample looped tight in background, first verse to Keith, then Cormega arrives and accelerates immediately by tearing the cut and perhaps taking home the best verse at track 3, an event possible on a disc of Keith, his hook is awful. The fourth track has a decent jazzy production, too tight, simple, with imperceptible female soul samples and decent delivery of Keith. "You I Want" has an uninspired rhythm of Ray West, if I had only felt this effort I wouldn't recommend listening to this producer, here he puts down simplistic and cheap rhythms, Keith does nothing to rekindle it, weak delivery. Sung hook. Sung badly. Maybe on purpose. Tribute to "Playa Hater"? No. He wants to do a modern LL ballad, he can't. It doesn't even get close. The following cut features a minimal light jazzy beat and a tight, too tight female soulful sample looped in the background; Keith doesn't fully explore the [low...] potential of this Ray West's choice. Sounds bad, bad delivery. Skit on minimal jazzy rhythm with skeletal drum machine, you didn't miss it. The eighth one is as soft as the previous ones, the beat is almost not there, mild jazzy, low effort drum machine, mediocre Keith delivery, soulful sample looped in the background but I can hardly distinguish, quite trivial hook. Sample "John Shaft", the movie, ook. Tight, slow, simple jazzy production, delivery dully, ballad hook R&B lame, but what the hell? This LP is going much worse than expected, the tracks have been deflected. Production that remains indelibly jazzy even at song number ten, Keith is doing whatever he wants, it's no longer a tape, it's a kind of joke where everything's allowed and the listener can be safely mocked. That's to be expected of anyone who has made one hundred career albums, amen. I have rarely listened to a more easygoing delivery of this, stuff that whole mumble rap regrets. Thirty seconds better than the last eight cuts, there's silence on light jazzy vibes; then skit. Skeletal, minimal drum machine, but Keith visibly no longer wants to rapping; he try to raise the tone of the delivery, on this rhythm that returns dark vibes traps, the MC starts to feel comfortable here, maybe he was expecting another nine beats traps, maybe it was better not to make this album, change producer or put on agreement BEFORE going to the studio to record. I don't know, Dyn Breed is better and stronger than Keith did on the whole album and 1. I absolutely don't know who he is and I have no desire to look for him. 2. It doesn't seem to me to be that he's making crazy «T5DOA» bars or saying incredible things. 3. In any case, he dominates his face on one of Keith albums, which for a novice is not a joke, Keith in his career has also dropped classics, at the beginning. A skit gives us the last one - alleluiah! - track, it's up to AG to pass the towel and clean up this messy: dark jazzy rhythm, tension vibes, pseudo-criminal, hardcore AG (seriously?) in recent years has provided performances let's say at the level of this of Keith, off, weak/dully, without desire, almost as a rapper-retired-homie-I-don't-want-to-go-back-to-studio-please-noooo, here he comes with energy and flows rather worthily on this rhythm, or at least, better than usual, Keith I don't understand what he's doing, but it's surely not doing it as I expect it: that's, if the rhythm was fast or very fast, I could easily understand also a spoken and slow delivery like this, but here the rhythm is slow, almost like a ballad, a delivery at the same speed is meh.

Jazzy rhythms of Ray West, cool delivery of Keith, I honestly expected another album. This is bad, to want to be generous.

Rating: 4.5/10.
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Ratings: 50
Cataloged: 18
Track rating sets:Track ratings: 4
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13 Feb 2024
sjconstable  3.50 stars
31 Jan 2024
HiroMusicMusicHiro  1.50 stars Bad, Mostly Ass But Has A Few Good Songs
30 Jan 2024
GLZ45  3.00 stars
22 Jan 2024
iibrvkenlxng  3.00 stars O.k.
3 Jan 2024
bender2002  3.00 stars
17 Nov 2023
holycorpse  4.00 stars
12 Nov 2023
LonelyHipHopFan  1.50 stars Grapefruit
26 Oct 2023
ctrlaltrap  3.50 stars
25 Oct 2023
saimonn  3.50 stars
4 Sep 2023
Doctor_Murdezio  3.00 stars Above Average
2 Jan 2023
HipHopJugend  5.00 stars
26 Nov 2022
Ry4rnr  ▼2.50 stars
  • 2.50 stars 1 Dont Let Em Lie
  • 2.50 stars 2 Tank Top
  • 3.50 stars 3 Running the Field
  • 3.00 stars 4 Pointy Shoes
  • 2.50 stars 5 You I Want
  • 3.00 stars 6 Destiny's Child
  • 2.50 stars 7 Love on a Red a Planet
  • 3.00 stars 8 John Shaft
  • 2.50 stars 9 I Know a Girl
  • 2.50 stars 10 Here to Stay
  • 3.00 stars 11 MC Try Outs
  • 3.00 stars 12 Crooked Cop
19 Jun 2022
Radnom  3.00 stars
7 Jun 2022
Jazzmatazz77  3.00 stars
6 Jan 2022
z_younk  3.50 stars
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Previous
Next
Previous in discography: Starcade
Starcade
Gamma Ray 404
Next in discography: Starcade
Kool Keith
Previous
Next
Previous in discography: Time? Astonishing!
Time? Astonishing!
Tashan Dorrsett: The Preacher
Next in discography: Time? Astonishing!
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Track listing

  • 1 Dont Let Em Lie
  • 2 Tank Top
  • 3 Running the Field
  • 4 Pointy Shoes
  • 5 You I Want
  • 6 Destiny's Child
  • 7 Love on a Red a Planet
  • 8 John Shaft
  • 9 I Know a Girl
  • 10 Here to Stay
  • 11 MC Try Outs
    • feat. Dyin Breed
  • 12 Crooked Cop

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