This CD is mostly of historical interest as a predecessor to rap (along with Rudy Ray Moore's albums). Lighting Rod, of the prerap group the Last Poets, does a series of vignettes about a, you guessed it, convention of hustlers. While the background music by the original Kool & The Gang and saxman King Curtis is good and interesting, Lightning Rod's rap is laden with 1960s street hustler argot that would be incomprehensible (for the most part) to modern listeners and those who are/were not a part of the ghetto hustler subculture. Perhaps future listeners would feel the same way listening to today's "gangsta-rap" music some twenty years from now.