Paying homage to Far Rockaway artist Rammellzee, Flee Lord and DJ Muggs release a collaborative studio album. The two from Queens have released over twenty projects each in their careers, for the rapper this is the first record of the season, while former Cypress Hill producer is on his third record in three months. Accredited guests are Ghostface Killah, Crimeapple, TF and Meyhem Lauren.
After an instrumental intro, Muggs begins making one of his best sets of recent years. "Eating Never Stressing" boasts a shaking and synthesized organ, coupled with a female melodic sample with distant drum, Flee Lord enters velvety and delivers fluid, unstoppable. Track number three features an elegant and fragmented gloomy sad piano with vibrant drum and crazy hi-hat, while the subsequent production is dark, with calm midtempo drum and bright dark samples, the New York MC maintains a smooth and regular style. "Wallabees & Gucci Loafers" is one of the strongest moments of a very solid album: slowed down female soulful sample, fantastic, distant drum, beautiful strings in the background, fast delivery of Flee Lord. Splendid jazz break for Ghostface, energetic, powerful, slow, dope style; skit, then the track is closed by an uncredited Roc Marciano, who destroys the album with a smooth, quick, energetic rap.
Eccentric samples welcome Crimeapple in the sixth song, then Flee Lord proves to be still in shape in "45 in My Pocket": DJ Muggs finds one of his finest soundscapes, jazzy boom bap with regular hard drum, wonderful melodic female soul sample coupled with strings, rapper's slow flowing dope rapping. Track number eight boasts a jazzy beat with hard midtempo drum machine and excellent light samples, good slow syncopated delivery by underground rapper TF along with Lord Lord. "The Equation" is the umpteenth excellent production of Muggs, which chooses a dark boom bap rhythm with downtempo drum and dark samples, the MC is fit with the mood. Meyhem Lauren is the latest guest of the edition on track number ten, performing with a slow and honest delivery on a youthful uptempo drum that just wanna have fun in a rare cheerful boom bap by Muggs, with wonderful samples, the rhythm rewards the light-hearted delivery of NYC rappers. The sample of the classic Johnny Thunder's "I'm Alive" takes the listener to the end of one of the best albums of the year in rap.
Flee Lord maintains a lyricism rooted in his comfort zone, DJ Muggs makes one of his best dark productions, and both stand out among the best hip-hop artists of the last period. With just under half an hour of listening, the tape is certainly one of the must-listens of the season, 8/10.
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