My favorite Beatnuts single, no mas. "No Equal(1)" is a paradox of styles, and it's beautiful. The Nuts come in slaying some of their best Corona gun talk, but the beat is far from rugged. It's that smoothed out jazz feel that just seems like it was dropped from the easy listening gods. Add some smartly placed vocal samples ("number one, competition is none") and expert production technique, and you have one the most fascinating sounds to come from the era. So smooth, you probably won't even notice. B-side features "Psycho Dwarf(2)" the Nuts' semi-successful attempt at frat party track. Even at this apex of meatheadedness, the production saves them from sounding like the Young Black Teenagers. All important instrumentals included for both tracks.

reviewed by the mgmnt