Inspectah Deck shows great visuals of New York streetlife told through lyrics on this new one over a nice 80's R&B music sample of Anita Baker. This is one of those great matches of vivid poetry by a street lyricist to a smooth musical backdrop that I miss, in the tradition of Rakim (What's On Your Mind), Kane (The Day Your Mine) and Slick Rick (Teenage Love).

I grew up on many female vocalists of 80's R&B, this song is reminiscent of those days and fits nicely with his stories told. I expect the amount of musical depth presented and departure from current trends to be too much for many new hip hop listeners, but all my fans of 80's hip hop up 'til now will already know what time it is. I appreciate Deck using this type of sound today, I wish I knew who produced it! It sounds like a mix of live instrument replaying and sampled parts, especially the intro.

In receiving many new songs to my inbox off the net daily, this song by Inspectah Deck is a great and refreshing separation from current trends, a good example in carrying on traditions of sound and writing standards of great Golden Era lyricists through creativity, originality and skill.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/640925704e7421e4/





Funny interview where Deck gives his straight up, unbiased opinions on today's standards of lyricism, saying all it takes is for someone to come out combin' their sh_t to the side to be the next hottest rapper