Like the classic aforementioned Soul Survivor, Port Authority's potency lies in its superb tracks and first-rate guest appearances. As long as Polo continues to pay homage while pushing musical boundaries, his next joint could be a classic.   Full text...

This is back-to-basics-and-stay-there hip-hop; take it and love it or leave it and don't. What's remarkable is how many of us still choose the former.   Full text...

For the most part though, Port Authority is a very solid effort from a producer that really has love for the art and culture. Just imagine if more artists shared his same passion for the music, Hip hop would be a better place.  Full text...

The CD is packed with heat, with a huge list of names on board and collabos that make it look like a East Coast who's who of emcees. Ed O.G, Sadat X, Masta Ace, Kool G Rap, Buckshot, Jo Jo Pellegrino, Copywrite, and many more are on this CD, making it a pretty safe purchase.   Full text...

Port Authority though, is the Canadian's first debut proper, an album put together with a bloodthirsty posse of high calibre Bill killers that include Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, Buckshot, Large Professor, O.C, AG, Ju Ju and Sadat X. Real standouts, however, are tracks like ‘War', a baroque and beefy conflation of muscular jaw bustin', some prickly boom bap and some killer-crooning by way of hooks, the lush, freaky, full-clip dreamscapes of ‘Speak Softly' and the slo-flow funk of ‘Lay It Down' featuring Roc Marciano.  Full text...