2024
Tag: Masta Ace
Below The Clouds ( song ) … Masta Ace ( featuring Blu )
2024
Hero ( song ) … Masta Ace + Inspectah Deck
2024
Brooklyn Heights ( song ) … Masta Ace
2024
audio review : Richmond Hill ( album ) … Masta Ace + Marco Polo
Masta Ace and Marco Polo are skilled at what they do, especially Polo. His beats are pure hip-hop; the boom-bap type that originated in the ghettos of New York City. He’s actually from Richmond Hill, Ontario, hence the title. Breukelen native Masta Ace has been dropping funky rhymes since The Symphony, but he’s sometimes too innovative for his own good.
The rapper has long had the tendency to limit himself to specific lyrical concepts that, over the course of a whole song, come across as somewhat gimmicky. The first word of almost every bar on Connections connects with the word before it. Outside Inside, with C-Red, puts the title words on repeat. All I Want, with Wordsworth, is a list of Christmas wishes.
Brooklyn Heights, all about what it “ain’t”, is one of the best songs though, along with Below The Clouds and Heat Of The Moment. Plant Based and Life Music deal with health, but Ace stays silent on the topic of MS. As a sequel, Hill is on par with the first Story. The worst bits are still the skits, though there should be an epilogue to match the prologue.
my rating : 3 of 5
2024
Richmond Hill ( album ) … Masta Ace + Marco Polo
2024
Life Music ( song ) … Masta Ace ( featuring Stricklin + Speech )
2023
Certified ( song ) … Masta Ace ( featuring Coast Contra )
2023
Unzerstörbar ( song ) … Umse ( featuring Masta Ace )
2022
Swing Um ( song ) … Speech ( featuring Dell-P + Masta Ace + Fatman Scoop )
2021
Born To Roll ( song ) … Masta Ace
1994
Home Sweet Home ( song ) … Masta Ace ( featuring Pav Bundy )
2012