Search - Innocent Kru :: Innocent

Ok so I'm stupid, so what. . .

Achis | Kingston, JA/Philipsburg, SxM | 10/29/2001

(2 out of 5 stars)

"When I initially reviewed this album I gave it a 4 star review and said that it maybe was going to be as good as the then forthcoming Ward 21 and T.O.K. albums.
And after about a year having this album. . .
Boy was I wrong?!
This album has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The best part of the entire project is the sleeve. Obviously, whoever wrote the sleeve, didn't write the album. The only songs still hold any kind of quality to me are Indian Summer (because of the very "Return" sounding riddim)Burning Up and So Jah Sey. I like the beat on Friday the 13th as well. The rest of this album is AWFUL. To find out how Beres Hammond got himself involved in such mess, one need only look at the producers of this one. The Taxi Gang. The riddim on the tune Beres Hammond features on (#7 If I Could Rule the World) is too slow for the Innocent Kru, who needs to be as close to slower riddim as they need to be to a Sophomore album, i.e. very far. They have not the skills to ride the slower tropical riddims yet. Speaking of skills there is a member of the Innocent Kru name Benzly Hype who is so far and away better than his groupmates that it is completely obvious to the untrained ear, someone having never heard any of the group, as to which verse is his on every song. A solo career for him, and a developmental stage for his other groupmates would do this group best."