This album was huge at the time and in a year where hip hop gave us Ice Cube’s The Predator, Dr Dre’s The Chronic, Bizarre Ryde II The Pharcyde and Check Your Head from The Beasties, it was this one the music press went gaga. However, whilst the other albums listed have endured this album stands up not at all well. The beats are under cooked, Speech’s preachy delivery is underwhelming and the overall album has few stand out tracks, Tennessee being the major highlight (here the original version of People Everyday is inferior to the single remix). It’s not as if this album represented a change in direction for rap, away, say, from the gangsta rap that tended to predominate; there were plenty of socially conscious and Afro centric rappers. And in spite of an obvious overlap in tone with acts such as De La Soul, Speech manages to diss De LA’s track Buddy. Imagine dissing De La Soul! But look, they’re still going and good luck to them. They did try something different and they had a massive impact, even if the album had lost a little over time.