Album number six for Crimeapple, first in 2020. Cheap cover that should be analyzed, there are many elements, but I don't think I have the time or motivation to do it.
The production comes from eight different beatmakers, but it sounds like there's only one person behind the keyboards: when something like this happens, I think the work has been happily positive. On these jazzy boom bap rhythms, the MC drops bars in English and Spanish with a lively, smooth and hardcore style, delivering excellently with both slow and ultra-fast flow. Crimeapple mainly offers drug rap lyrics and makes honest joints, blessed with impressive production, nobody gets anything wrong: there are beautiful samples of piano, horns, tense and dark sounds, and soulful female melodic ones distant in the background.
The New Jersey rapper pulls out a dope delivery in "Camouflage", on a jazzy boom bap by Evidence that boasts a tight looped piano, a soulful female sample, and a light and distant skinny drum machine, and he does another highlight in "56", where he flows well on MichaelAngelo's bleak boom bap jazzy midtempo, with great samples and a dystopian mood; nevertheless, when he places the drum aside and leaves it far away in the background ("Too Close") or takes it out completely ("Garfield"), he goes much faster than most contemporary MCs: his flow is impeccable on the piano sample chosen by Buck Dudley for the first cut, while on the jazzy rhythm of DJ Skizz, with a wonderful male soulful sample, he offers with a lighter style, launched at the last verse from a M.O.P. sample from "Ante Up (Robbin Hoodz Theory)". Solid and enjoyable album, with a small listening time that gives it a good replay value, recommended for East Coast fans.
Highlights: "Garfield", "56", "Too Close", "Camouflage".
Rating: 7/10.
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