“I was trying to be you” J DIlla
The evidence of Pete Rock’s legacy bangs in his latest opus, Petestrumentals 2, the sequel to the 2001 classic that helped define the hip^hop instrumental record. It marks the legend’s first album on Mello Music Group, a fitting union between the author of the boom^bap blueprint and the label that’s expanded upon his legacy.
Petestrumentals 2 conjures memories of BBQ cookouts and 70s Blaxploitation scores, rattling summer jeep cruises and blunted Jamaican vacations. You see and hear the full range of Rock's gifts on display: the meticulously chopped horns, unquantized drums, and air raid sirens. It contains the emotion of a thousand eulogies. This is the latest chapter an even 20 slaps and rhythmic levitations. It's Pete Rock at his best, accelerating and kicking cosmic slop, extending wishes, hope, love, gritty drums and eternal wonder.
Follow up album from Legendary hip hop producer to his 2001 album Petestrumentals (BBE), “a master at work’”(A.V. Club) Grammy nominated for his contribution to Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, he also contributed to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, he’s produced beats for Public Enemy, Jay Z, Ghostface Killah, Cypress Hill, Run D.M.C., Nas (Illmatic) among many others