Second tape in the "Craven N" series by the producer born in Aylmer, Quebec, Canada. The guests are Styles P, Mach-Hommy, Dark Lo, Sha Hef, Billy Woods, Ransom and D-Track.
The first track is "The Irishman", homage to Scorsese's film of the same name: the emcee of The LOX Styles P delivers with a clean, calm, flowing style on a solid boom bap with elegant piano left to breathe, excellent work by the beatmaker who improves in the next song. "Lapriyè" features Mach-Hommy with his dope delivery over a celestial production by Nicholas Craven, without drums and with magnificent strings, wonderful piece. "Free the Man" features a beat composed of good strings, good soul samples, fine downtempo drum: it's an ideal sonic carpet for Dark Lo who drops bars with a precise and tight hardcore style over a breathing rhyhtm building a great cut. "Gildan" boasts $ha Hef that spits verses in a syncopated style over a downtempo production with elegant piano, it's a pleasant track.
Immediately after this choice comes one of the best hip-hop artist in the game these days, Billy Woods in "Gyre": the Washington-native emcee kills the cut with a superlative flow, top delivery over immense production, awesome soul sample with tight horn. The amazing Ransom-Craven company marks another masterpiece by designing "The Reaper's Hood": heavenly-ethereal production by the Canadian beatmaker, light strings, soulful samples, light, soft and bright soundscape over which Ransom delivers with fluid, rapid, silky rapping. "Sorbonne" is the track made together with the French-Canadian rapper D-Track: interesting production, nice job by Craven to lay out the sound carpet, great rapping by D-Track making a solid track. It ends with a passage of thanks and props on yet another masterpiece production, it's the norm for this guy now.
Consisting of 8 cuts and 22 minutes of material, the tape was originally self-published and later released by the independent Austrian label Lowtechrecords. 8/10.
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