Man, what a revelation this is. Ever since I started doing this website, I’ve been seeing the ‘Maison De Funk’ label everywhere I went. Whether that be reactions on my post or artists themselves representing it.
Little did I know that this was a label consisting of some of the most elite and dope producers I’ve ever heard! Not only that, but I found out that out of my over 400+ reviews, one-third or more are Maison-represented! That is so fucking dope to discover, and this new compilation project showcases exactly the reason why the world is buzzing over them, and if you’ve been living under a rock and don’t know, why you should care!
So, this brand-new compilation volume by the label consists of 16 tracks with the likes of
-Agallah
-Wavy Da Ghawd
-Work Scorsese
-WorldwideCulture
-Blaq Medici
-Da Grand Hova
And these six producers work with literally everyone important you can think of in the underground. Once you see the tracklist and MC names, you’ll understand what I mean; it’s all the powerhouses of the underground from Penlordz to the Umbrella Collective to Reek Osama, and that’s just a drop in the bucket of the names on here! It’s a spectacle to behold, to say the least.
Across this project that runs just under 50 minutes, you have so many different influences, styles, and abilities by all the producers involved. What Maison has over everyone else is the ‘diversity’; they are the literal definition of ‘one size fits all’ because it doesn’t matter what type of MC you are, what sound you prefer, or rock with; there will be a producer here who can not only meet your needs but has the mastery of technique to adapt and create whatever your heart could dream of.
This volume features songs such as ‘SLOTH’ by Kamron Bahani and SNOTTY, which features such crisp, melodic, and angelic properties to it with those wavy guitar strings and those orchestral piano keys and beautifully composed female vocal arrangements on loop!
Then you have tracks like ‘The Weather Channel’ featuring Fam Ross and DJ Mello Rasheed, which has a more introspective and acoustic atmosphere attached to it, with those raw vocal snippets and those high-pitched notes playing repetitively as the beat, giving the floor to Fam to absolutely go off on!
But then you have tracks like ‘Dirty Work’ featuring Benny Watts and Pro Dillinger, who absolutely transform the album into their trademark gritty, grimy, and muddy boom Bap adventures, where danger and violence are on every corner, and they are the ones who run the street!
That instrumental with those eerie piano keys and that skeletal hip-hop pattern makes for the most bare-bone, ‘fuck your feelings’ type of beat you could ask for!
Even the track ‘Spilled Milk’ by Reek Osama, Work Scorsese, and ETO further pushes the point further into that lethal territory with not only the deadly duo of overlords Reek and ETO but the grim mastery provided by Work and how he was able to make that beat consist of those distorted jazz instrumentation with that no-nonsense boom Bap juggernaut beat!
Each man on this label is a master in their own right. It doesn’t matter to them the theme or narrative of the album they decide to work with because they know they are more than capable of dropping bangers that the culture will be bopping forever to come!
To say these guys are taking over the game is an extreme understatement. This project reveals that quite clearly. They are involved in every aspect of the industry; no matter which corner of it you visit, you’ll find a representative.
They are here to maintain and preserve the reputation and quality of the underground, and they are doing that one project at a time!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1D6IGFgHVV2DzbLMxHusF3?si=s4vCKhz6QVKYnardTmZojw&pi=8gCGzMOwRQa7Q
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