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Rating: After the great debut with "Molotv Cocktail" and the follow-up with "WanTed", Ted Bundy, now also known as Ted Bee (pseudonym of Marco Villa), brings us his new work, an 11-track mixtape, including 1 skit intro and 2 interludes, titled "D-Generation", available for free download from his official Facebook page.
The album starts, as announced, with a skit titled "Warriors Come In", which tells us little to nothing about this work.
Next, we have "Be Winner (Part 1)", where Ted narrates his approach to the world of hip hop, from his first written text in 2004 to his entry into the Dogo Gang, including his challenge at 2TheBeat against Mastino (who remembers it?), on a beat produced by Joker (like all the rest of the album) which is fairly acceptable.
Following is the first and so far the only single released from the mixtape "De-Generazione", a track that, as can be inferred from the title, talks about this generation that Ted, at 21 years old, is entirely part of. The lyrics are quite well-written, and Joker's beat tends to pump the single well.
Next up is "Non Me Ne Fotte Un Cazzo", a rather bad and monotonous track on a Joker beat that doesn't quite convince, as Ted, aside from repeating "I don't give a damn", doesn't say much.
Then we have... hey, one moment! What’s a house beat doing here? After "Non Me Ne Fotte Un Cazzo", we have "Mr. Freeze", a 3:10 interlude produced by Joker that is outrageously tacky! What could possibly warrant a house beat on a Ted Bundy album, who has always gone against gimmicks and the like? Well... better not to think about it.
Better move on to the next track, "Delitto E Castigo", the best of the album, in my opinion! In this track on a beat with a strong piano sample, Ted Bee tells the story of a Russian dealing with a crime he has committed, not out of a desire to break the law, but out of desperation, a factor not considered by the judges who condemn him. The track is truly well done, especially the part where Ted questions the presence or absence of God, which really gives you chills...
Then we move on to "My Life", a remix of a well-known track by Lil Wayne, the only track not featuring Joker's production but a beat from US productions, namely the original beat of Wayne's song. The track begins, after Lil Wayne's part, with an unknown voice (identified by Ted Bee's Facebook page as someone named Hooli) delivering a verse that is metrically really poor, while Ted comes out with a rather good verse.
We arrive at track 8, that is the ugliest of the album, titled "Get Your Hands". Joker delivers a highly tacky beat and sometimes much louder than Ted Bundy's voice, who, in his verse, communicates little to nothing.
In the next track, we have a classic that we find on every Ted album by now, a romantic love song. After "Fermare Il Tempo" on "Molotov Cocktail" and "Faccio Tutto Per Te" on "WanTed", here comes for "D-Generation" the song "Quello Che Cercavo", one of the best on the album. Ted's verses are very beautiful and romantic, and the beat sampled from a guitar gives the song a wonderful and unique atmosphere.
We thus reach the penultimate track "Il Più Vero", a track I don't have much to say about, it's very similar to "Get Your Hands", a very tacky beat, and Ted's verses, apart from being very self-celebratory, say almost nothing.
The album unfortunately closes with another highly tacky interlude, titled "Enigma", although here, the real enigma is understanding why the choice of such unsuitable interludes for Ted's subject!
In short, the album overall is quite average, oscillating between masterpieces and absurd crap, and the presence of those house interludes only worsens the situation, even if we must consider that it is a free download. In my opinion, if there had been features from the Dogo Gang and he had entrusted the productions to people like Don Joe and Deleterio, the album could have turned out really well, considering that his masterpiece ("Molotov Cocktail") was produced by the two aforementioned producers.
3 Stars!
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