After last year's excellent supergroup release by Slaughterhouse, Joell Ortiz is now able to carry a little more weight (no joke meant there) because of that fairly high profile release. Although he shares the bill with Novel here, it is to Joell's advantage as his style and flow is best suited as a part to a whole and not the whole itself. And here, Novel makes a nice little counterpart to Joell although Ortiz does end up taking up the majority of the mixtape's second half. As a mixtape, there are the usual disposable tracks (such as the soooo 2008-esque "black president" track) and lame hooks but the verses aren't too shabby, however, too much Joell is not necessarily a good thing (but don't fear, the tape ends with a collaboration with his Slaughterhouse brothers).
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