XO's PODCAST 2 (Nauts & Crosses)

If this is called Podcast 2, I wud figure dat ther is a podcast 1. Unfortunately I did get to hear it, oh well, m stil alive ain’t I? There’s stil chance 2 cop it. A buddy of myn recommended this, (the Jacket Shop). 2 put it simply he hustled me 2buy it. Ain’t disappointed though. This is an album/ mixtape 4rm X rate (who took center stage during the highs of Optical Ill,he not part of crew though) and Ootz a producer of note slash Emcee.
1 thing bout this album is dat it is short. As in, it plays 4 lyk 30min 4rm track 1 to de last track. Some of de illest spitters feature in this mixtape. We got Reason, Zubz is also featured, with Nthabi lending her feminine toxic spit (the poison ivy in the album). Battlekat lends his Rhymes n a classic (Battlekat) beat on the track “for the cause.”
Tracks dat really stood out are “1 Word Trigger”, “1 thing on my Mind”, “It’z a problem” and the ode to Mpefa, Motekwane, Mpange, Patje “the Khala Green.”
The Mixtape tends to b monotonous @ some point; in dat de beats n styles of flow seem to b chopped 4rn the same tree. Over all it is a gud buy, another one 4rm S.A 2 add 2 my collection. Big up 2 all those who were involved in de project.

Track Listing

INTRO – Oh my go0dness (Prod. Ootz)
SINK OR SWIM – Xo (Prod. Ootz)
THE FOURTRISS – Big C’s n Recoil (Prod. Reason and Ootz)
XO ROCKSTEADY - SKIT
ONE WORD TRIGGER – XO feat Ph n Nthabi (Prod. Ph)
SIPPIN ON (INSTRUMENTAL) (Prod. Ootz)
TIME WASTIN – X-Rate n Zubz (Prod. Battlekat)
ONE THING ON MY MIND – Ootz n Eli (Prod. Ootz)
FOR THE CAUSE – X-Rate n Battlekat (Prod. Battlekat)
JUSLIVIN (INSTRUMENTAL) (Prod. Ootz)
X RATE BAD LUCK Verse (off Nthabi’s 4rm the Lab 2 da Streets Ep) (Prod. Mr C)
THE KHALA GREEN – Greenh0use Producti0ns Feat XO, Ph, Nthabi, Killa, Reason(Prod. Madnick)
XO IN THE BUILDING – SKIT
IT’Z A PROBLEM – XO featuring Headbanger (Prod. Headbanger)