First collaborative album between Flee Lord, on his second project this season, and Roc Marciano. Entirely produced by Roc Marciano, the tape features ten short songs and twenty-six minutes of listening, boasting Conway the Machine, Ransom and Stove God Cooks as guests. Roc Marciano takes part in rapping exclusively in "Breeze in a Porsche", uncredited.
If you arrive with high expectations, the record disappoints: Roc Marci makes a minimal and partly experimental production, founding most of the rhythms on the loops and keeping the drums at a distance, giving up the boom bap to which Flee Lord has linked his best tapes. The MC flows worthily, calm, slow, hardcore, however, stripped of his ideal musical carpet, he doesn't draw canvases that feel as bright or essential as he used to.
The guests are among the best performers of the period, and, in fact, they make no mistake, exalting average rhythms: Conway closes the third song with a fluid, flowing, dope style, on electric guitar licks that are annoying. Ransom kills "Breath of Air" on an honest loop, instead, Stove God Cooks finds himself spitting on the most annoying beat of the edition, due to a particularly bad sample that doesn't allow you to adequately appreciate his performance.
Most of the songs are simply there, nothing surprises or makes this tape a must-listen within the huge discography of the two artists, 6.5/10.
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