Flee Lord recalls Mephux to deliver his studio album number eight in 2020, a direct sequel to "Pray for the Evil". Half an hour of listening and 14 short songs: the guests are Evidence, Trae tha Truth, Roc Marciano, Eto, Westside Gunn, Keisha Plum and 38 Spesh. Flee Lord maintains purely hardcore and drug rap topics, delivering a project similar to the previous ones but aided by an extraordinary musical choice.
Mephux makes an excellent production for the intro, boom bap jazzy great, scratched, then perfect drum machine, Flee Lord's spoken intro, slow smoothness delivery of the rapper, riding the beat with his dope style and kicking off another classic in his discography; sung hook and final outro. Evidence is the first guest on the album, on a fantastic jazzy boom bap, Flee Lord's smooth, almost spoken syncopated delivery, then Evidence effortlessly, smoothly. "Icewater" is blessed with a tense and gloomy jazzy boom bap, mood noir, fantastic; flowing and determined delivery of the Far Rockaway rapper, however the beat is a perfect musical carpet for Roc Marciano, who's not wrong, this rhythm is born for him; effortless smooth delivery, dope. Midtempo drum hits early, in "R&B Lords", sublime jazzy boom bap, introductory adlibs by Westside Gunn, dope rhythm, delivery sung by the Buffalo rapper, this should be one of his first officially released R&B songs; Flee Lord delivers in rapping, almost spoken, slow and smooth. The fifth song features another jazzy dope rhythm, great male soulful sample in the background, slow smooth delivery by the New York MC, perfect drum, lean, slow and energetic for this short choice.
Trae tha Truth is the guest of the sixth song, there's a soulful sample to accompany the slow, light and syncopated drum machine that forms the jazzy boom bap on which Trae spits bars with an effective style, also going to close the track after the verse by Flee Lord. "Ciger in Remy Tunes" is a short solo song, light jazzy boom bap, perfect drum, flow dope by the rapper. Eto opens "Gett Off the Train" with an almost spoken fluent delivery on the meager lo-fi boom bap provided by Mephux, slow but energetic drum machine; Flee Lord kills the track with a smooth hardcore flow. The tape welcomes another Griselda artist in the next pick: Keisha Plum gets a solo cut by providing some lines with her spoken style on a light lounge piano. Two solo choices follow for Flee Lord, in the first one, he spits effortlessly while in the second one, he interprets the jazzy rhythm with a hardcore style. The last guest on the tape finds himself on a jazzy production with female soulful samples: great fast and smooth hardcore delivery by Flee Lord, while 38 Spesh is raw and tight in this piece. The last two tracks are quite short and show that Mephux didn't miss a sample or rhythm throughout the album and that Flee Lord's flow is the freshest of the year.
Excellent tape, musically flawless, however the rapper doesn't make any progress from the lyrical point of view.
Highlights: "Cook Up", "Icewater", "Gett Off the Train", "Plum Philosophy", "Don't Call the Policia".
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