The four-track digital EP is reminiscent of the real underground label days, with CDs handed out featuring one amazing posse cut and three teasers promoting the next artist up to bat. "Warriors" [click to listen] is that track and the rest are Royce teasers. The hook-free joint reels in all four super-group members spitting their ugliest in domino fashion - lining the bars up and knocking them down. The horn-heavy production takes a mid-'90s feel, but lacks any semblance of appearing outdated. The remaining tracks feature Royce at his hardest.

We saw some of this new fire earlier last year with the release of The Album, but there's an unspoken confidence beaming from Royce in his rhymes that we haven't heard in years (probably since his pre-beef aligning with Dr. Dre and Eminem). "Count For Nothing" interpolates the "Ten Crack Commandments" as Royce straight spits with a Slaughterhouse roll call wedged somewhere in the middle. "Gun Harmonizing" [click to listen] has a slight lag in the beginning - almost a minute passes with Royce scatting gunshot noises before actually rapping, but the track is hot enough. "Street Hop 2010" brings the return of the Indian music sample, but it isn't properly utilized throughout the song. Still, the beat is nasty and the lyrics even nastier. 

While some may find The Revival EP to be too short to call great, it's just enough to want more Royce Da 5'9 in our lives. That alone stands for something, since quite a few Rap listeners haven't made that statement in years.