Cydney Poitier arrives with "Motion Sickness" as a sixth album statement that earns its feature roster rather than borrowing from it. K-Solo – the Long Island MC who came up through the EPMD orbit and placed two albums on Atlantic in the early '90s – and Thirstin Howl III – Brownsville, Brooklyn, co-founder of the Lo-Lifes street fashion gang, Source Unsigned Hype winner in 1997, and one of the more idiosyncratic lyricists the New York underground has produced – share space on "Kevlar Kidz," which alone marks this as a serious project. Production from Maestro Z, Best Won, and The Dirty Bakerz builds the kind of layered, soulful-to-dark range that a 14-track album needs to hold together. A prior connection to Thirstin Howl III on the "Paris Blues" remix establishes an existing working relationship. "Motion Sickness" lives up to the range its description promises.
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