Third project of 2020 for Hus Kingpin, this EP consists of five very short tunes for a total of 10 minutes of listening. It's quite short.
The first rhythm is provided to us by RZA, the producer of the Wu-Tang Clan: boom bap jazzy lo-fi, simple skinny drum machine, mediocre production by Bobby Digital, Hus delivers uninspired. While this rhythm is the most generic and average you can hear in the field of minimal jazz rap production, the beatmaker Day manages to do worse than RZA, delivering a decent rhythm but placing an almost-annoying sample that ruins the second track.
Things get better with Giallo Point, new kid on the block that delivers a jazzy skeletal boom bap worth listening to, but Hus doesn't seem to want to commit himself. What do you expect from a 10-minute hip-hop EP? Anything but a sample of the trip hop group Portishead in between: it arrives in "Hannibal Hus", the MC of Brooklyn keeps the rhythm of "Cowboys", tense and at times dystopian, with lean and hard drum and he delivers with a slow and decent style. There's also the voice of Beth Gibbons sampled in the background and scratches to close the song. Yoga beatmaker Flame Kane delivers honest jazzy rhythm to the latest track of the edition. Discreet tape, listening not necessary.
Rating: 6/10.
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