C-Rayz Walz - We Live: The Black Samurai [EP]

It's the stormy yin-yang inside of C-rayz Walz that makes him so great. He's one-half bravado thug, one-half concerned parent. All of the conflicts that go with that combo come out loud and clear on his recordings, and he's always pushing to be a better person. To add to all this, he's value-conscious and releases EPs that are 40 minutes long. Calling it an EP keeps We Live: The Black Samurai from being considered the official follow-up to his great Ravipops full-length. Perhaps it's because We Live doesn't have the cohesion Ravipops did, the jump from the 2pac-ish "Single Mothers" to the thug love "Amore" being the best example of the record's choppiness. Read More