About two months after the second volume, Westside Gunn doesn't let the game breathe and continues to drop raw bars on midtempo rhythms. The game is in fact holding him under the radar of the underground, and even this third effort of the "Hitler Wears Hermes" series remains hidden until the explosion of "Flygod". Camoflauge Monk is the main beatmaker of the tape, other rhythms are created by Daringer, Tha God Fahim and O.G. Sole. The guests are Keisha Plum (credited as Kiesha Plum), Durag Dynasty, Skyzoo, Vast Aire, Sean Price, Chase Deniro, Benny the Butcher (credited as B.E.N.N.Y.) and Conway the Machine.
Recommended to Griselda heads, there are jazzy downtempo rhythms, some midtempo, Benny and Skyzoo in shape, and a quote from Keisha Plum to Frank White from the movie "King of NY". Unfortunately, one feels how quickly this effort has been made and suffers from not too inventive rhythms and uninspired cuts. In general, it's not up to the quality of the two previous tapes, although it remains a rather enjoyable listening and a much better effort than the general standard.
The best joints come in the end, when Cannibal Ox's Vast Aire drops lines with a rough and hoarse flow, as gloomy as the beat, welcomed by a very downtempo rhythm with a devastating loop in its depth from The Mad Lads' "I Want Someone". Sean Price has the honor of the final cut, on a tense rhythm seasoned with an electric guitar reef sampled from Bernard Lubat's "Perdido Paradise", he brings out a dark and sharp verse before the closure of Westside Gunn.
These two pieces are anticipated by "John Starks", which is digitally reported as "Bad News": functional chorus on this disturbing, gloomy, dystopian boom bap composed by a sample from "Les Dunes D'Ostende" by François de Roubaix, with WSG delivery that accompanies this beat to the morgue to recognize a corpse, dark beat that it stops mid-track and wanes, then begins a light jazzy boom bap with a loop from Polish singer Zdzisława Sośnicka's "Dobranocka, Moje Kochanie" on which Conway starts in a sort of track that shows two sides of the same medal; Con brings the song back to the surface, in the open air and leaves it to breathe.
Rating: 6.5/10.
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