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Pete Rock - NY's Finest
| Avclub | | Super-producer Pete Rock is nobody's idea of a great lyricist, but hip-hop-heads have learned to love his sonorous voice because it almost invariably accompanies his exquisitely mellow beats. So it was jarring and disappointing when Rock's lackluster 2004 effort Soul Survivor II found him M.I.A. from microphone duties. Even more disconcertingly, Rock had abandoned his lush signature sound for distressingly stripped-down beats. Thankfully, the classic Pete Rock returns for NY's Finest. The chill-out-room throwback sound is back, and Rock confidently handles hook, verse, and beat duty with lyrical assists from the likes of Redman, Little Brother, Styles P, Raekwon, Masta Killa, and Papoose....full text |
| | Rapreviews | | I like Pete Rock. I like his layered, jazzy beats, his knack for finding the perfect samples and working them into perfect beats, his ability to realize hip hop's potential to reference and build off of other African-American art forms, and his wicked drum beats. I like him because he is a producer's producer, intent on making good music rather than on riding the latest wave. Most of all, I like him because he's good at what he does, and manages to make relevant, banging music sixteen years after releasing the classic "Mecca and the Soul Brother."...full text |
| | Allmusic | | Pete Rock has been a dependable, though not always spectacular or surprising, force in hip-hop since his first records with C.L. Smooth came out in the early '90s. His solo records -- on which he usually acts as producer and MC -- have not always been consistent affairs, but he's been able to release a lot of solid material and establish a particular sound and feel to his kind of beat-making. On NY's Finest, his fourth official full-length and first on the Brooklyn label Nature Sounds, he continues this trend, presenting more of the consistent, professional production and lyrics that he's made his name on....full text |
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