3.5 out of 5 stars
Pete Rock’s NY’s Finest is the type of star-studded producer album on which the beatmaker shouldn’t be grateful to have the roster that he does; it’s the opposite. The guests should be phoning home about their opportunity to rhyme over new beats from the legend, let alone be considered lyrically dexterous enough to get in the studio with him.
On his 6th solo album, Rock assembles a roster of veterans like Raekwon and Redman and newbies like Doo Wop and Royal Flush to create a sleek nod to New York rap’s golden age, a time when beats coasted on regal trumpet samples and shook ghetto blasters with crackling drums ripped straight from classic breaks. It is a fresh and graceful record that doesn’t attempt to be bigger than it is, and with Rock showing that he is still in the mindset to create this type of album, hip-hop heads can relax knowing that someone can put out such a carefree record in this age of unoriginal music.
Rock bases the album on his signature technique, relying on frail soul samples and whipping them into head-snapping grooves. “We Roll,” featuring Jim Jones and Max B, kicks off the record with a subdued and sour beat consisting of interwoven melody lines from a B3 organ, all while Jones expectedly mumbles his way through a verse about rocks and keys. Later on the record, Little Brother pops up on the grizzly “Bring Y’all Back,” a track whose beat huffs along on the strength of a charged tuba line. But Rock saves one of the album’s best beats for the deeper cut “The PJ’s” featuring Wu-Tang brethren Raekwon and Masta Killa, a bumper that festers with psychedelic flairs and a prominent bass line.
He could have kept his involvement with NY’s Finest to making beats, but Rock steps out from behind the boards to grace the mic on several of the album’s tracks, and the results are not as treacherous as one would think. “‘Till I Retire” and “Don’t Be Mad,” the only solo tracks on the record, have some fleshy rhymes, with lines like “More bars than Alcatraz, just call me The Rock” and “Don’t be mad cause you not me / I’m the fuckin’ posterboy for the MPC.” Although Rock wisely keeps his outward presence on the album to a minimum, he reveals that he is just as capable as any of these full-time emcees of assembling a complex rhyme.
NY’s Finest is not a classic album by any means, but that’s because the time has already passed for records like this to be considered “classic.” Pete Rock is an old soul – at least in the hip-hop sense – and can funnel that sentiment into his musical projects. He may not be around for much longer, as he approaches the 40-years-old mark (that’s ancient in the hip-hop world), but he continues to show how sharp his musical sensibility is. And with a record like NY’s Finest being added to his discography, hip-hop’s fresh-blooded strain of amateur producers - and emcees - will have even bigger shoes to fill once he’s gone.
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