When it comes to the harlem based diplomats there has only been one emcee consistant with there lyrics and that is j.r writer. Ive been following him since the broken aarow mixtape he put out with papoose over 10 years ago. With his latest release still standing 3 j.r still proves hes the most underated and underaprciated emcee in his crew. The album shows nothing has changed when the beat for the opening track powerfullness kicks in. same diplomat format, hardkicking rock sampled beats with punchline filled bars. Unlike artist like cam'ron and jim jones j.r writer don't force any of his bars and flows clean without having to make shit up to keep his flow smooth. What jr's problem is orignality cus the punches he delivers in some are played out concepts. on powerfullness he makes this mistake alot, "i made it out the jungle with a couple snake bites" lil wayne has used this concept for. Wher jr lacks in punchline orininality his hard hitting delivery and amazing multi schemes make up for it. One thing i like about j.r is he switches his flow up alot one of the more impressess products of this is the speed up "thats all" Again with a impressive multi scheme j.rs rapid fire flow makes the delivery of this track perfect. Shockingly though my favriote song on this mixtape is a ode to women entitled "taliban." i thought orignality in a sex styled song was gone. Not only goes the beat have a east indian style he spits bout taliban law not showing the skinn on women talking about being defiant towards this concept. Tracks impressive wish the rest of the mixtape was. This is deffintly a good release for mainstream hip-hop standards but for j.r writers standards this unfortunatly falls short.
overall rating
7 out of ten
top tracks
taliban
get high
thats all
weak joints
drummer
don't convern me
powerfullness
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