"Oh, Canada" Didn't let us down! "Seems so golden age!" says Big Bob's - American counterpart the Grand Surgeon on "The Blessings" track. It's a legends' tale, engineered by L.D. on the Cuts, that reimagines a 1980s reggae/Hip Hop style Rap radio hit complete with a driving break beat sample that suggests a park jam full of B-Boys and B- girls boppin' their heads to the Boom Bap. Sure, Hip Hop may be a mess. But as the production, skills and feel of Big Bob and DJ Fastcut and the Grand Surgeon also known as Will P. prove on this underground tinged 2015 smash album, it's True — and reasserts on this all-star catalogue of Legends and come-ups a promised- Rap Classic to remain a solid hip hop investment.

Big Bob is one of Canada's most promising producers and he clearly aspires to the craft of the "greats".

On this compilation the most successful tracks are the ones that feel most original. Their are pure grinding trap music cuts with polyester funk sounds and blues-turned-rapper type joints. "Somewhere in Th