Hip-Hop Albums of the Year

01 November, 2019

El Camino & Bozack Morris — Saint Muerte


Produced by Bozack Morris, Elcamino's fourth studio album in two years, is opened by a skit on a slow and dark jazzy rhythm that precedes "Real Shit", another dark, simple and essential rhythm with a decent delivery that I don't consider a successful song. The third track is "No Smoke": Morris' production remains dark and jazzy, essential and tight, the song has a functional hook and a good delivery by Elcamino, to which is added Benny the Butcher which destroys the piece. This is the finest tune of the tape in my humble opinion. The subsequent tracks fail to live up to this one, including those with Rome Streetz ("Black Gestapos") and Flee Lord ("Coke Brothers"), but they're pretty solid thanks to an inspired delivery by the rapper and to dark and simple jazzy rhythms provided by Morris (except the ballad beat of the fifth song).

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