Nine tracks, just under twenty-five minutes, ten dollars. Patty Honcho is out of Paterson, New Jersey his own words on his page and the tags on this record read like a mission statement: boom-bap, lyricism, underground hip-hop. The running order is built around two songs with the same title. "93' Charlie Ward, Pt. 1 (SGA)" runs two and a half minutes; "Pt. 2 (Forevermore)" runs nearly five and is the longest thing on the album. The reference, presumably to the year Charlie Ward won the Heisman, splits into two movements with different subtitles, which is a structural decision most twenty-five-minute records don't bother making. Around it sit "Run," which opens, a title track-adjacent pair in "Lions Eat First" and "Cautionary Tale," a thirty-two-second interlude called "Familiar Face," and a bonus track, "She Like," at the end. There's also "St. Kitts & Nevis." What it refers to isn't stated, and this isn't going to guess. No production credits are published, so none are named. That's a recurring gap across this batch and it's worth saying plainly: for a record tagged "lyricism" and "boom-bap," the person who made the beats matters, and their name isn't here. What is here is a tight nine-track album from a New Jersey emcee who says he's going to start using his page more which, on this evidence, he should.
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