Search - Breed :: New Prescription

The best MC Breed album in at least 7 years!

Daniel B. Anderson | The Black Lodge, Ohio, United States | 08/30/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I haven't bought an MC Breed album since 1997's "Flatline." I had heard that every album he put out after that was so awful, that even his fans should avoid them. When his last album, "The Fharmacist," came out I barely considered it. Then I heard that "The Fharmacist" showcased a rejeuvenated Breed with a hot new producer, Gee Pierce. By the time I hear all these things, however, the record was already OOP and gone from most stores. You can imagine how excited I was to find out that Breed's new album would be released on Psychopathic Records and the internet buzz was that it was even better than "The Fharmacist." "The New Prescription" exceeded my expectations by leaps and bounds. Only a couple tracks feature the breezy, laid back style that Breed used on "To Da Beat 'Chall" and "Flatline." The Breed on TNP rhymes fast and aggressively, like a young rapper who's hungry for respect, using more complicated rhyme structures than I've ever heard him use before. The beats from Gee Pierce and Ess Man are hot. 'Nuff said. Of Course, the best reason to buy this album is the first ever colloboration between two of the Midwest's best - Breed and Esham on the scorcher "Roll." It's too bad that this album came out when it did, because it would have made for a hot summertime-bump-this-in-your-ride album. Get it filled!"