This album might be a lost classic, with rapper T and his P.O.W. (Product of Waste)) production team (who also have a hardcore-metal alter ego fronted by T) putting some of the densest, honest rhymes to the hardest smooth-grooves you can find in post-boom bap. Released a decade ago, you could hardly get around Providence in the 2010s without seeing a dripping red POW tag somewhere in your neighborhood. T is a SCARY dude. He paints a picture of a man on a mission with dense values, struggling with a life plagued with violence, poverty, and addiction. He makes sincere accusations against a plutocratic power he has no control over with a conviction that its not in his head. This album always stood out to me because T's specific detailed rhymes about political and social problems that in a way that it can be shocking. The beats have some really great bass loops and the drum tones are always fresh.
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