The "Hitler Wears Hermes" series is one of the best of the last few years in the rap game. This is the best cover of the series. I quickly get to the point: too many have ignored this record without a reason. Daringer creates the rhythm for almost the entire tape, Knxwledge, DJ Green Lantern and The Alchemist produce a track each. The guests are Keisha Plum, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher and Styles P.
Soft-soul intro by Keisha Plum who opens the tape, then starts Westside Gunn on a boom bap jazzy midtempo skeletal, gloomy, bleak, the rapper contributes to this mood created by Daringer, with a pure, rough, dirty delivery without giving up his typical adlibs. Good Keisha chorus, then final skit. "Mac 15s" features a dark, disturbing and dystopian, midtempo jazzy beat with a sample from Dick Walter's "The Psychopath (C)", again provided by the Griselda producer, on which WSG is fit. The next track is a kind of freestyle on Knxwledge's jazzy downtempo rhythm, follows "OG MA", where Daringer returns behind the keyboards to produce a bleak jazzy production on which Westside delivers fluently.
The first part is quite good, solid, in the second half of the tape, the Buffalo MC gives the acceleration that allows this tape to position itself high among its brothers' tapes. A splendid boom bap jazzy soulful midtempo welcomes "Mickey Sunday", with an excellent sample looped in background from "God Has Smiled on Me" by Rev. Isaac Douglas, Daringer offers a monumental carpet for Gunn's syncopated delivery. "Down State" has a production of DJ Green Lantern: splendid boom bap dark jazzy midtempo, with beautiful piano, supported by a nice sample looped in the background, Mercedes Sosa's "Juanito Laguna Remonta un Barrilete", Styles P as the only credited guest on this piece of Flygod, along with Conway and Benny. Westside enters quietly, delivering fluently and following the current of the beat in a verse with Conway spitting only three bars before leaving the last lines to his brother who pays two homages to Kanye in one bar («Graduated to 100 bricks, he was a dropout»), then mafia verses by Styles and Benny, both smoothness.
"Finn Balor" is composed of a great cheerful, celestial jazzy boom bap made by Daringer, completely fit with the decisive, slow, almost spoken delivery of WSG. Heavenly loop from The Undisputed Truth's "Walk on By". "RIP Bobby" is the best cut, a record dedicated to Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, wrestling manager. Daringer, phenomenal at creating the beat; soulful sample looped in the background which gives added value to the song, it's the wonderful "I Can't Stay Away From You" by The Fascinations, a cheerful boom bap jazzy, cheerful production of Daringer and one of his simple ever. On this sensational soundscape, Westside Gunn & Conway go back and forth and exchange short verses, deliver slowly, almost spoken, decisive, in short hardcore rips.
After the chorus, halfway through the song, the magic arrives: outro by Bobby Heenna taken from a WWF promo, the beat wanes during this outro and took over from a celestial boom bap light jazzy with a mystical aftertaste created by The Alchemist, soulful sample female looped in the background, Conway takes the mic first for another eight bars, then Gunn closes with a dozen bars before the final outro. Classic. Classic. This twenty-five minute tape is concluded by a "classic" outro, that is, we return to Hitler's speeches to the cameraten who have characterized this crazy series, qualitatively insane — you'll never find five (six, seven, etc.) other mixtapes of this level, so full of absolute classics — this time on a light jazzy boom bap by Daringer, aided by guitar licks.
Higlights: "Mickey Sunday", "Down State", "Finn Balor", "RIP Bobby".
Rating: 7.3/10.
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