Hip-Hop Albums of the Year

24 July, 2020

$ha Hef — Numb



Rapper Sha Hef from the Bronx releases a 31-minute work divided into 11 tracks, with a production by 183rd, Antwon C, Trypps Beatz, Wiardon, Ek, Mordecai Beats and Grimm Doza. Benny the Butcher, 38 Spesh, Jay Worthy and Jim Jones are the guests of the project. Sha Hef, who has been riding the mafioso subgenre since before it became a trend with the advent of Griselda, makes a competent album with good rap and a good personality, providing a slow, syncopated and decent flow, sometimes hardcore, not fully supported by production. The set chosen by these guys is erratic overall, hopping between jazzy boom bap and trap rhythms with rarely decent loops and samples, and a lively drum, while maintaining decent musical quality in any case (the only slip comes with the penetrating loop of "Spinnin'"). Among the guests, 38 Spesh and Benny aren't really in shape, but they carry the tracks, Jim Jones delivers with raw and slick style on a poor trap beat, while Jay Worthy is blessed with what is perhaps the best production of the tape: Grimm Doza puts together a snare drum and an ethereal sample, and both performers spit with a fluid flow. 6.3/10.

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