Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada born though Compton, California raised Emcee Jay Worthy, as well as Honolulu, Hawaii/Tokyo, Japan born and raised rapper, singer and producer MadeinTYO joining forces for a new collaborative EP produced entirely by the latter. One of which has been grinding in the basement for the past 7 years and the other landing a spot in the 2017 XXL Freshman Class, producing Ransom's latest EP Smoke & Mirrors earlier this summer. However, Mr. Tokyo continues to apply pressure by linking Jay for Time After Time.
After the intro, first track “Master Delux” is a drumless opener to the EP, with the two providing the soundtrack to bread-making moms, while “Nino” jazzily keeps the drums out of the picture by boasting that the newspaper does double flips. dreams. “School Daze” jumps over yet another bare-bones jazz loop refusing to have a job to do before “Chop” drumming about drinking milk and making no mention of dairy products.
“Fashion Week” keeps the jazz rap vibes working some drums right now hoping god forgives them for their fortunes and after the intermission, “London Carry-On” goes drumless again, keeping extra sugar in the sweet tea their. The last song “Antiqua Barrio” tells the wack MCs to get off the mic is black as it is Off-White and the outro ends the EP with a 3 minute long instrumental track.
As I said a few months ago during Smoke & Mirrors review: I've never considered myself a fan of MadeinTYO aside from “Uber Everywhere,” but he and Jay Worthy have put together a group EP that's as enjoyable as THE AMERICAN DREAM. His production is more jazzy than on the Ransom EP, keeping it prominently drum-less and lyrical, he and Jay Worthy ping each other impressively throughout the 24 minutes you get out of Time After Time.
Rating: 8/10
