Westside Gunn — There's God and There's Flygod, Praise Both EP

How can you release a classic effort in just two days? Well, you can't. But prodigy rapper Westside Gunn doesn't go too far when he brings out this short six-cut, twenty-minute EP in summer 2016. Pure Griselda record, the production is entirely ascribed to Daringer and overall it's an EP above average, but much above average. It should be frightening that an emerging rapper will be able to pull off an effort of this level within fifty hours.

This extended play is opened by "He Got a Gunn", a dark jazzy rhythm in which the rapper delivers slow and flowing delivery inspired by the production, with a distorted and obscure loop from Lalo Schifrin's "Scorpio's View", from the "Dirty Harry" (1971) movie soundtrack. Final skit extracted by the 1993 movie "A Bronx Tale". "Loco" follows, InKredible Nes to narrate, boom bap jazzy founded on deep and tense bass lines, gloomy jazzy beat in the background to partially raise the tone, sample from the Austrian Joe Zawinul's "Doctor Honoris Causa", WSG delivers smooth and clean, while Conway brings out a technical verse, then skit from 1973 movie "Five on the Black Hand Side" in the finale.

"Peter Luger" sees another fluid and inspired delivery of the Buffalo rapper, inspired and smooth on this deep jazzy rhythm with a dark aftertaste, loop from Chicago Gangsters' "Let Me Go". The next cut is "Jimmy Hart": good jazzy boom bap, tense, gloomy, sample from Sara Vaughan's "Alone Again (Naturally)", nice work in production. Westside slow, flowing, rough delivery + final skit. The song switches rhythm in the second part, heavy jazzy-soul boom bap, tight looped sample from Honey Cone's "Who's It Gonna Be", towards darkened by the heavily synthesized voice. Benny the Butcher comes to refresh the joint in "Pissy Work", intro of Westside Gunn's daughter, then delivers him, slow, smooth, accurate on this very dark, silenthillian, claustrophobic, scary boom bap jazzy with a noir sample from Nick Ingman's "Chemical Waste", Benny delivers an extra-verse and kills the song with a raw and smooth, he's heavy in its delivery bolted calmly and it's an excellent verse. Last tune intended for a jazzy production without the usual boom bap derived from the drum machine: beautiful rhythm, pure jazzy, with a fantastic piano in the background sampled from "We've Been Together" by Chicago Gangsters. No need to put half a bar, flawless.

Rating: 7.3/10.