This is the second dope recommendation by the Spotify algorithm in the last few weeks! It’s starting to do its job properly in connecting me to dope artists, and this one is definitely the definition of DOPE! After hearing one song off this EP, I had to reach out because of how much I loved it, and so, here we are!
This is the brand-new EP by Producer Sly Ceru! Accompanying him are the MC’s
-Monday Night
-Chuck Strangers
-Hell’z OWN
-Pink Siifu
-André DeSaint
-Elcamino
These are definitely some high-profile names, and across this project, their voices just blossom! It’s absolutely insane!
Starting with the first track ‘Scott Summers’, which features that light jazz work with those beautifully groovy piano keys that feel like Herbie Hancock himself is behind in the studio going off! Lively as fuck.
Alongside that, we have those soft drum beats that help provide a light/subtle edge to the whole track.
Across this track, we have Monday Night, who showcases his strong no-nonsense bars with his sharp lyricism and his aura with absolute conviction in his purpose and energy on the track! His words are on point, and his flow is smooth but efficient! A lyrical titan in this underground shit!
Across the second track ‘Wolfie’s Walk Home’, we have Sly incorporating a more soulful aspect with what sounds like a throwback beat to the ‘The Jackson 5’ era. You’ve got those funky chord progressions and more lively and passionate piano work!
This time with more of a jazz-noted drums that feel more in the background than at the forefront but can be heard amongst the other instruments!
Across this track, we have both Chuck Strangers and Hell’z OWN, who both provide excellent bars of their own! Both have their own unique versatile styles and help maintain that glorious vibe of that beat!
Neither man feels like they are overshadowing or underwhelming the other. Both on equal footing delivering absolutely killer verses!
On track 3, ‘Wingspan’, we have another soulful cut with this gorgeous vocal harmony loop hitting us in the face the second the track starts. Accompanied by some subtle piano keys and one plucked guitar string note that appears every other beat!
Once again, the drums on this one feel more in the backend of the track than noticeable in the front and centre, but they do have a light, jazz element to them that makes this track have such an incredible rhythm and structure to it that just takes your breath away!
Especially towards the end with those guitar strings and long, elegant vocal performances, man, I legit got goosebumps listening to that track!
That song also features the notorious Pink Siifu, who provides a rather methodical performance for himself. It feels laid back and smooth while also maintaining those witty and sharp pen game with all that swagger and natural flair a man can have in this game, making every word he drops feel like bars of gold!
The final track, ‘Closed The Garden Gate’, has, I feel, the loudest and funkiest track of them all. This feels like it was executively produced by Bootsy Collins himself!
It’s intimate, sexual, and funky all in one. You’ve got P-Funk-inspired synth chords and those absolutely irresistible bass lines and light drums that all come together to create a ridiculously powerful and nostalgic track that makes you feel like you’re in the 80s with a thick Afro, the purest powder on the market, and ready to find the nearest club and tear it down with your finest dance moves!
Across this banger, we have three of the strongest lyricists in the game right now with ‘Hell’z OWN, André DeSaint, and Elcamino’ all coming together to each drop a vibrant and memorable verse with their own individual voices, verses, and styles that are their own!
What an incredible decision to not only have this mesmerising beat be the finale track but to have these lyrical juggernauts on the track alongside it! Absolutely genius!
This EP is everything I thought it would be! It’s perfectly produced, that’s accompanied by the best MC’s you’ll find anywhere. This is the EP you don’t want to miss out on!
https://open.spotify.com/album/1jp6NKSfQCI51Nw45ZMTOu?si=KRBq543pTXWZsVqX9s6Pyw
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