(Nohokai 3)

I’ll say this, I’ve never heard such an aggressive intro to an album in my life. That’s some ONYX, Pro Dillinger shit, but I dig it. This is the latest album by rapper ‘Coast LoCastro’ and producer ‘Nohokai’, and so with that, let’s talk about it!

On this new project, we have 11 new tracks with the feature list as follows:

-Johnny Slash

-Blind Vizionary

Now, leading up to this listening, I heard people call it some of the toughest rap they’ve heard all year, and so naturally, I was curious and already had my mind set on the standards it should meet, and after listening to it, yeah, I can’t say I disagree with those statements; this shit is hard as fuck.

Firstly, let’s talk about the production. We’ve got some of the hardest forms of raw, skeletal, gritty boom Bap we’ve heard all year. Every instrumental has enough to block your air drums out, step outside the AirPods, and strangle you personally. It’s mad tough!

Whether you’re talking about beats like ‘Black Hole’ with that haunted house introduction that leads into this creepy mix of horror and boom Bap that makes you picture zombies robbing people with Hennessy bottles to the back of the head and bouncing with the wallet and keys!

Or if you’re talking about beats like the beat for ‘Fuck Em All’ with that sharp and crisp interlude that turns into a monstrous heavy bass beat that feels like your skin is being blown off to expose your skeleton underneath, absolutely unreal! The point is the production on this is done to the absolute max! 

To complement such an atmosphere, we have Coast who brings the equal savagery on the mic. His words and lyricism are mean and deadly. He’s a bully MC, and he ain’t hiding it. If he’s not insulting you or shouting at you or hyping himself up, then he’s hitting you with that complex lyricism and hard bars that make gold look like paperweights. 

The song ‘Pon Di’ is the most gruesome of hip-hop medleys with Coast and the two features bringing nothing but lava on the tracks, and with the trio’s cadence melting that lethal production, it makes for a gang mentality track that will scare off your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper.

Overall, this isn’t the project to ignore. In the words of the men themselves, ‘Fuck around and find out,’ and in that respect, don’t believe this album is worth the hype? Then you know what to do!

https://brokencomplex.bandcamp.com/album/nohokai-3