WESTSIDE DOOM — WestSide Doom

Collaboration between the legendary MF DOOM and the Buffalo rapper Westside Gunn. It's an EP of two tracks streched with versions with and without beat.

The first cut is greeted practically like a classic: jazzy, syncopated, somber, dystopian boom bap provided by Daringer, light and smoothness delivery of Griselda rapper that accentuates this mood by taking you to the morgue area, I think I feel the cold right now while I write, instead MF DOOM chooses to feed the dark mood of the song with an essential, minimal delivery and a subdued and disturbing flow. I don't want to say that the instrumental version is as good as the previous one (don't get me wrong: Daringer's work is excellent), instead the acapella song is extraordinary and makes you appreciate not only the lyrics chosen by the MCs, but above all the delivery, the timing, the breaks, the fluidity of the bars: Westside Gunn is really hardcore here, and it's not easy to find such a hardcore track by randomly fishing in his vast discography. That version gives value to his delivery.

Then MF DOOM. Listen to his delivery without beat. He chooses to spit in a dirty, rough way. Westside maintains a clean sound for almost all its verse, but look at MF DOOM, look at the choice of putting the whole series of words with the "s" and limestone the consonant in order to give a rough style to its verse, and he does it in a simple way, in a way that should be studied. And this is one of the songs where you can notice it more easily, don't sleep on the acapella version. The other track inserted is the hardcore "Stings", which suffers from the merits of its previous despite The Alchemist offers a nice boom bap jazzy dark and dystopian as the previous one, disturbing; slow and dirty delivery of MF DOOM, second verse to Westside who, to be on par to him, chooses a slightly faster delivery style than usual. Also in this song, take a look at the acapella version (the instrumental also here's quite passable, good, excellent for the actual average standard, props to the alchemist, but passable): MF DOOM continues to delivers pretty rough and dirty, this time he kills the song with a broken, slow, smoothness delivery.

What to say? There's disappointment for not having a full album or at least an EP with some "real" tracks. It's understandable, despite being an excellent and short project.