In 2016 is released this 50-track compilation mixtape by Conway the Machine, featuring songs from other projects, freestyles, loosies and features.
After a intro, the tape presents "Unreleased". It boasts a good light and nuanced rhythm realized by Camoflauge Monk, the first on which Conway starts delivering straight, shiny. "Klyde Drexler" is another light and nuanced beat, minimal, courtesy of Camoflauge Monk and Daringer. The light boom bap of "Gold Pots" is the soundscape realized by Daringer for a great Griselda posse track between Conway, Westside Gunn & Mach-Hommy. A heavy rhythm follows on which Conway delivers aggressively, is the first of a beautiful series of wonderful midtempo essential beats, this one is credited to the Buffalo emcee himself.
"1000 Corpses" has a fantastic, excellent performance by Conway surrounded by guitar licks, splendid solution by Daringer. Together with the previous one and many other cuts here, "We Made It" ends up right among the highlights of this compilation tape: amazing boom bap paraded to a classic, excellent proof of Conway over this exceptional beat invented by Purp Dogg for the hit of Soulja Boy.
The track number eight "Anybody" features a drier and colder, more serious rhythm, a heavy and essential bleak boom bap by Daringer, excellent deliveries by Conway and an uncredited Westside Gunn. "Beloved" and "Blakk Tape" are good tracks that come from the EP "Reject 2": the first presents a rhythm realized by Daringer founded with mafioso mood, in which Conway drops lines with Benny and Mach Hommy, excellent cut, the latter boasts a splendid midtempo beat with gloomy mood, behind the keys there's always Daringer.
"Body on the Gun" is a good boom bap skeletal and tense, dark and heavy, excellent proof of Conway. "Coke on the Mirror" has a boom bap midtempo musical carpet, skeletal, bouncy, tense and gloomy, the in-house Griselda producer Daringer provides another formidable work, Conway delivers together with Westside Gunn in Rae & Ghost style. The next tunes are two other excellent cuts from the acclaimed "Reject 2", two iconic posses, "Sky Joint" (great midtempo posse dominated by Westside Gunn) and "Rex Ryan" (flawless rhythm, posse with WSG and Roc Marciano, who kill the track).
"T.D Jakes" is a lively, rocking rhythm produced by La Maquina, while "The Mobb" is a homage to Mobb Deep taken from "The Devil's Reject" (beautiful dark boomy jazz bap, Conway delivers immediately attacking the rhythm with a sharp flow). The central part of the tape is composed of solid, good cuts, alternative lean rhythms ("T.O.S", "Silly Rabbit"), pop rap ("Schemin"), bouncy ("State Greens"), with scales of piano ("Wraith"), tight, tense and gloomy ("Bars", "Rigamortis"). "Bandit" tries to insert himself among the best tunes of this tape with an amazing boom bap created by Nicholas Craven, a nice carpet for Conway. The Beat Bully is the beatmaker of "Schemin'", "Silly Rabbit" is produced by Just Blaze, Willie B is the behind the keys of "Rigamortis", all freestyles from song of Rick Ross, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar respectively.
"So Apalled" is a freestyle over the song of Kanye West for his album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", produced by West, No ID and Mike Dean: tense and very dark jazzy musical painting, intense and dystopian mafia-like mood with tight alternative sample, excellent Conway delivery. Statik Selektah arrives at the halfway point offering a tense soundscape extracted directly from "The Exorcist" (1973), a masterpiece, excellent raw and fluent delivery of Conway. "Pray for Buffalo" is a classic: jazzy production invented by Camoflauge Monk, excellent delivery of Westside Gunn & Conway, fantastic sample, flawless cut.
A good midtempo rhythm follows with a dark piano in the background, in which the two brothers continue to exchange verses. Impossible not to go to place among the best of this super-comp "Exzibit J": on Jay Electronica's classic ethereal beat, Conway is unleashed for many minutes. The following choices are solid and less solid, alternating on minimal rhythms ("Pat La Fontaine" is faster than usual, with guest WSG) bouncing ("Fire Squad"), dirty, underground ("Ready to Die") and relaxing and ethereal ("Birdy", here Conway dope). Westside Gunn remains to deliver verses with Conway over the amazing subdued midtempo of "Red Tops", smooth, clean performance. Nice work of Camoflauge Monk here. "Khristopher" is a tight, bright and raw production, while the annoying, pounding and triumphant funky of "New Slaves" clashes with the rest of the music scene of this tape, this beat arrives from Kanye West's "Yeezus".
"Greed" (heavy and simplistic, triumphant, modern and patinated music realized by DJ Infamous) and "Grind" (tight and somber, simplistic, tight beat provided by Daringer) are two subdued songs, in the middle of "Oil Money" (pretty dope soundscape by Justice LEAGUE, good freestyle by Conway over this Rick Ross track), "Killa Conway" (heavy, skeletal, poor, gloomy and tense rhythm with tight looped sample) and high-level "Off White" cuts, another amazing midtempo subdued beat with a slow delivery and sliding by Westside Gunn and "Kommas", a deep production taken from Future's "Fuck Up Some Commas" to which someone takes the vibes trap and adds a skeletal boom bap.
The splendid boom bap with soulful background of "!Go Fish! Volume 1" is the forerunner to the last tracks of the disc and they are excellent songs from "Griselda Ghost": "Brains on the Basquiat" (dark rock boom bap, based on looped guitar licks, good fast delivery, technical, smoothness by the duo Hall N Nash) divides the classics "Fendi Seats" (boom bap sample soul looped in the background, deep, dark, flowing, fast delivery by the Machine on this apparently ethereal, extra-verse) and "Rahbannga" (boom bap dark ethereal jazz bap, WSG delivers bars with a dark, raw, rapid flow, it's deeply flowing; very well also Conway with a good style; closes WSG with a third verse). "Keep It G" is a tune by Gawd Status featuring Conway: excellent soulful boom bap, dope deliveries. Second Statik Selektah freestyle: amazing boom bap very dark, dystopian, Conway asphalts the rhythm after the forerunner Statik, the tape is has a great closure thanks to a wonderful soulful rhythm.
Huge compilation of Conway, which delivers raw, always polished, on spectacular and cinematic midtempo rhythms, sometimes helped by WSG, bringing back the vibes of hardcore mid-nineties creating rough imaginative paintings thanks to the music provided by Daringer.
Highlights: "Gold Pots", "1000 Corpses", "We Made It", "Rex Ryan", "Freestyle 1", "Pray for Buffalo", "Exzibit J", "Red Tops", "Off White", "Kommas", "Fendi Seats", "Rahbannga", "Keep It G", "Freestyle 2".
Rating: 7/10.
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