After the first episode, released in 2012, Westside Gunn returns three years later to continue the "Hitler Wears Hermes" series. Series that over the years has proved successful. Daringer produces almost the whole tape, J57 and Camoflauge Monk provide one beat each. The guests are Keisha Plum (credited as Kiesha Plum), Tiona D, High Fashion P and Conway the Machine.
The introductory cut is a nice tribute to "Big L & Half-A-Mill" produced by J57, beautiful sample from Pierre Cavalli's "Deep Waters" with a homage to Big L through the finale with a sample of one of his freestyles. However this is the first of his projects to have a strong musical connotation of Daringer: the beatmaker provides several excellent rhythms on this mixtape, ranging from dark, gloomy and hard boom bap of "Vera Boys" («Every day I pray to J Dilla» has a sad effect), with a sample from "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" by SSO featuring Douglas Lucas and Sugar Sisters, and "Hall & Nash" (where a tight and shiny loop from "Body and Soul (That's the Way It's Got to Be)" by Soul Generation makes the difference, while WSG and his brother Conway they drop "Rae & Ghost"-style lines), with more subdued jazzy rhythms as in "Eggz", characterized by a curious and crooked delivery by the Buffalo rapper over a sample of "Nigger Rich Song" from Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes.
Daringer continues to pulls out extraordinary rhythms, bringing out a soulful boom bap in "City, Sos & Me", a fluid and splendid tune thanks to a couple of chops from a ethereal and heavenly "Sleepy People" by Bettye Crutcher, in which Westside delivers smoothness. The next two tracks present dark rhythms, the first one is disturbing and scary with a sample from Alain Goraguer's "Méditation Des Enfants", an excellent brilliant cut, the second one has a beautiful sound in its darkness, sample polished from The Escorts' "Ooh, Baby Baby", in both the delivery of the rapper is similar, always dope.
Flygod improves in "Never Coming Homme", after the intro there is an incredible boom bap jazzy downtempo, spectacular and brilliant, thanks to a beautiful sample from Tonio Rubio's "Dead Slow": the track stands out from the others simply because the mood of the entire album is gloomy and it'll also be in the while this is a relaxing and relaxed level, with a great chorus, soulful, by Tiona D. Closes "Salute", amazing sample, dark boom bap and gloomy work by Camoflauge Monk, sample from Los Angeles Negros' "Aplaude Mi Final", the delivery of Westside Gunn keeps this mood, slow, smoothness delivery, now became his classic delivery; like the previous one, this record is also closed with a speech by Hitler to his kameraden.
Rating: 8/10.
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