Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother

It would have been hard to match the artistic success of their debut EP on a full-length recording, but Pete Rock & C.l. Smooth did just that on Mecca And The Soul Brother, and they did so in the most unlikely way of all after the succinctness of All Souled Out -- by coming up with a sprawling, nearly 80-minute-long album on which not a single song or interlude is a throwaway or a superfluous piece. Granted, 80 minutes is a long stretch of time for sustained listening, but the music is completely worthy of that time, allowing the duo to stretch out in ways that their EP rendered impossible. Read More