scourgethetracker | Albuquerque, New Mexico United States | 03/03/2004
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Tony Touch, I am dissapointed with this release. I got too hyped up and it backfired in my face. There is not even a single song on this whole cd that sticks out. When you make a cd where 99 percent of the songs are awsome it is very difficult to top that on a later cd for an artist. I don't care how good an artist's previous cds are. However, I am not going to kid myself and suggest that an artist doing better on a later release is not unheard of. It can happen, but what I am suggesting is that this is not the case with these two albums by Tony Touch, in my opinion. The beats are average at best. The production is not as good as the first Piece Maker. When you hear the first 2 or 3 songs you can just feel the lack of intensity, enthusiasm, and effort behind this cd and it just gets worse towards the end of the album. If you are a die hard underground rap fan save your money on this one. Go out and buy the new Jedi Mind Tricks, Hieroglyphics, 2MEX, or Project Blowed Presents... The Good Brothers."
Not As Good As the Piecemaker (1)
J. McQueen | 06/12/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This album is good but not as good as part #1, so don't expect it to be. This beats are good and the drums are heavy. However, on this album Tony Touch tries to MC more -- a mistake. Leave the MCing to the professionals, which is another thing there aren't the same quality of MC's contributing to this project. There is Noreaga, the Beatnuts, Raekwon, Method Man, U-God, and Slick Rick; but it still isn't as good as the previous album. I would still recommend it for those who love overground hip-hop, it just didn't live up to the original Piecemaker.
Plus, I had to take away 1 star b/c P. Diddly is one a track.
Also, there are two stupid MC battle skits which aren't worth the space they wasted on the disc"
BAD follow up from Tony Toca
G$ | B-More, MD | 07/13/2005
(2 out of 5 stars)
"After a good first Piecemaker album, he comes back with some wack $h!+!! Out of the 15 songs, he raps on 10 (big mistake Tony you ain't no good as an MC), and I skip 9 of the 15, 1 is a vclassic (of course he ain't on it), 3 are good, and 2 are ok. Production is ok on some but drum heavy on most of the 8 songs Tony produced. Erick Sermon, Psycho Les, JuJu, RZA, Q Unique, Pete Rock, Sean C all did 1 song as well. I definitely would pass this by and pick up the 4-6 songs worth listening to. A disappointing album.
#2 - 7.5 (Black Rob, Tony Touch, G-Dep, Puff Daddy)
#3 - 7.5 (Keith Murray, Redman, Erick Sermon, Tony Touch)