Conway starts strong 2020 with an excellent EP composed by seven tracks and produced entirely by The Alchemist. The guests are ScHoolboy Q and Cormega.
After the "Intro", a simple and tense jazzy rhythm with sample from Adrian Baker's "Show Room" skit, comes "14 KI's", a mafioso-like, tight jazzy production, sample from Mandalaband's "Song for a King" with a dope bridge formed by strings and excellent delivery by Conway. The next one is a better cut: splendid jazzy production that loudly recalls mob vibes, beautiful, smooth track. Conway doesn't waste even this beat and puts that song in the Griselda finest, destined to be part of the future compilation of the label.
It follows "Shoot Sideways", The Alchemist provides a dark, deep and bleak musical carpet for the smooth and clear rapping of the Buffalo rapper and for the hook of Schoolboy Q. The fifth song is "Calvin": Buffalo's MC brings out a deeply smoothness and dope verse on an excellent Alchemist's dark, jazzy and simple beat. "They Got Sonny" is among the best cuts of this extended play: boom bap jazzy slow, simple, dark, tense, with good verse by Conway and Mega that shines, he seems back to his best period and on this type of rhythms makes his figure.
The Alchemist recreates a soundscape typical of the first Daringer, with the little difference that he cleaning up the midtempo and downtempo that he drops in this effort with other elements to offer a more velvety carpet, the results are of invoice and also when it produces an essential jazzy midtempo beat ("Gold BBS'S") the result doesn't make the group's historic producer regret.
Perhaps the album suffers from some not too inspired hooks and the tape doesn't have that sort of mythical essence that makes it special, it's certainly a jewel that resides among Conway's [many] best efforts and it's worth giving it at least a couple of spins.
Rating: 7/10.
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