Third chapter of the Shogun Assason trilogy that credits Killarmy as Presenter, whatever this lemma means. Fifth effort by Jamal Alexander since 2018, when Black Stone of Mecca Records started releasing material by the rapper serially, here named Hue Glockmen for the last tape of the trilogy.
The record features the contours of a long EP or short mixtape: eight short cuts, totaling around 25 minutes. The production of the album is entirely done by Shaka Amazulu the 7th: the beats are bouncy, cheap and poor, on these scarce rhythms the thug and braggadocio bars of Shogun sound ineffective. The boy has no ear for rhythms, but the producer messes everything up behind the keyboards, inserting a drum that's too hard, ridiculous noises and random samples: in particular, the choice to put the chopped soul samples in different tracks sounds very bad. "Get Kake (Understanding)" has a beat that sounds like a poor copy of a Griselda production, dark vibes, boom bap, drum downtempo, Shogun delivery in spoken-word, basically. The guests are Kinetic 9 of Killarmy, School of the Gifted (Royal T, Shaka Amazulu the 7th, Rubbabandz), Airwave Justo, Ho2Fa and Midaz, but none of them seem really inspired here.
There are no bad tracks and it's possibly superior to the previous acts, albeit remaining distant from the rapper's most successful works and distant from his real potential.
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