Last Updated: Spring, 2005, 14:07

by A.W & R.L of the JDC
The Arch Ryvals' Plain and Simple was a pure waste of time. This group is all out of order. They need to fire whoever came out with they're beats because it all sounds like I heard it before. On every track they rap about the same thing, money, girls, and guns.
I like the way track 5 came on. The music is loud and clear. You could bob your head to the song. They also rapped very good on this track and I liked the hook. The beat came on really tight. Their rap and beat had a lot of coordination. Their words were spoken clearly. The beat on track 8 didn't sound bad. If the lyrics were better the song would be alright. I liked track 10 because it was mixed with R&B and it was in a slow tempo.
They're talking about African American life these days, and he spoke the truth. I also liked the singing too, but only a little. Track 12 sounded like an R Kelly beat. I didn't like nothing about this song except for the hook, "We smokin', drinkin'" that was tight.
On some songs the beats were wack. On other songs they kept it real in a way. How do you have an R&B beat then try to rap about the hood and killing' On track 15 they used an Ice Cube beat and they made his beat sound wack. The group sound like they out some words together
Arch Ryvals gets 2 out of 5 stars.




