Sonnyjim & Buckwild — Coke Le Roc

Collaborative album between British artist Sonny "SonnyJim" Sathi and New York producer Anthony "Buckwild" Best. The excellent production of the DITC boy obscures and annihilates the mediocre rap offered in this half hour by SonnyJim, which here sounds better than usual on a particularly successful set of beats.

The album begins with Martin Luther King's latest speech, known as Mountain Top speech. Buckwild takes a few lines, but I personally think that could be a specific sample, from Jay Electronica's "Jazzmatazz (Guru Tribute)". Boom bap with midtempo drum, xmas bells and sax samples, SonnyJim delivers bars in a subdued, effortless style. A good boom bap follows with a hard and dirty drum, there's Crimeapple as a guest, but the cut doesn't rise among the best of the edition. The third choice features a good piano loop, but the author's rap still comes out subdued. The title track boasts a splendid sample and a boom bap with a lean slow drum, on which the rapper chooses an acceptable fluid style.

Lord Apex provides one of the best moments of the tape in "The Process": excellent jazzy boom bap, great samples and light slow drum, good delivery of SonnyJim, smooth and slow the other British MC. The sixth cut consists of a jazzy soundscape, midtempo drum, good samples, great short sax, decent delivery by SonnyJim. Two musically similar pieces follow, with drum midtempo and taut vibes the first, weakly delivered the second. Production drops in quality in "Maserati Rick", with the only annoying sound on the tape, while the 10th track has a decent dark rhythm, but the performer's almost mumble style is simply not good. "1520" presents a dark landscape with a quick drum, then the album is closed by a light bap boom with a melodic female sample and distant drum.

Overall, Buckwild does a nice job, however, SonnyJim's rap doesn't fit the boom bap production. It would probably be better suited to more trap sounds, although this effortless-almost dead emo rap style is easier to sound bad than good on any music. 6.3/10.