Pete Rock / C.L. Smooth - Main Ingredient (Vinyl)

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth: C.L. Smooth (rap vocals); Pete Rock (DJ).Engineers: Jamey Staub, Rod Hui.Recorded at Greene Street Recordings, New York. Includes liner notes by Adofo A. Muhammad and C.L. Smooth.On their third release overall and second full-length, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth scaled back on the expansive scope of their sprawling first opus, Mecca & the Soul Brother, indeed opting to magnify the main ingredients of their sound: Pete Rock's brilliant production chops and C.L Smooth's complex lyrical delivery. The result is an album that is far more focused, with all the ragged edges and loose threads tied up. It is also just as good as the first record, perhaps an even more satisfying single listen. The Main Ingredient is full of rich, resonant, hypnotic songs -- the production being among some of the most seductive in hip-hop -- that subtly, but absolutely, swing with their lock-step precision. In characteristic Pete Rock fashion, all of the sharp edges have been sande