In an era of over-saturation in the music industry when everyone and their mother has a rap album, there is one duo, one team, one series that is standing out above the rest as the bar for the underground, the new standard to beat! The first two captivated the world, and now with this third volume, they are here to tear it all down with their bare hands! Let’s fucking go!
Brand new album by Underground Titans MC Pro Dillinger and Producer FutureWave, who come back with 11 new tracks and the likes of
-Snotty
-Big Trip
-Estee Nack
-Danielson, and with this fatal four-way combing together, you can expect violence.
Let’s start with FutureWave. I feel we as a community are taking for granted the fact that we live in an era where we can see a man of his calibre consistently improve and evolve! We’ve seen this man over the last 10 years+ with a variety of different artists and continue to defy expectations and become monstrous in the process.
Any of his releases could be considered his best, and that’s just a testament to how solid he is, and this time is no exception. I haven’t heard Future this hungry and rigid before. He’s treating this record like it’s going to be his magnum opus, and it sounds like it!
From the very opening track, we hear just how serious he is with this record; it’s absolutely savage, raw, muddy, and dangerous as he’s ever been!
This album sounds and feels like the soundtrack to The Sopranos or Godfather. He’s got that perfect combination of cinematic and gritty to create an atmosphere of street scores that make you feel like you’re walking through the most deadly streets in the dead of night!
I honestly thought he couldn’t sound better than the first volumes, but I was fucking wrong. He’s taken the influence and experience of those two and added sonic steroids to the mix as he creates a brand new beast that can’t be tamed!
I’m talking about those vicious loops with the ridiculously thick bass lines, detonating drums, and opera-level vocal arrangements that sound straight out of the 60s and 70s! I can’t express enough how well executed and expressive the music on this album is!
It’s like you’re watching a mafia movie through your ears and are transported to that era to witness the carnage and chaos firsthand! That’s the talent of FutureWave; he can inherit the intentions and vision of the artists he works with to provide the best possible outcome sonically, and when it comes to an artist like Pro Dillinger, it means FutureWave has to dig to the deepest part of his psyche to create the most memorable, compelling, and downright murderous music he can pull off, and this is that and then some!
Onto his partner in crime, right from the first fucking track, I was given goosebumps by his performance. On every track he’s on, he sounds rough, and especially in the past two volumes, he’s sounded absolutely ruthless, but the way he presents himself on this album is a new level of deity entirely.
From the way he called out the culture by saying ‘we gave you the first half of the year, and this is what you do with it? Wasted our fucking time,’ bro, that legit gave me chills!
From there, he just ends up in a snowball effect of pure anarchy, rage, and diabolical power and tendencies to further stamp his name and reputation on the line! He is the most intense and relentless MC on the market, and he’s going to force the world to accept that!
He’s never sounded more powerful and assertive than he has on here. His delivery is louder, his conviction is deeper, his flow is smoother, and his pen game sharper. He’s literally the whole package wrapped into one!
Everything from the way he formulates his bars to his chorus lines, they all sound boss. He’s never the one to be anyone else’s soldier or right-hand man; nah, he’s the fucking kingpin, and he treats his verses as such!
The words he spits sounds like ORDERS being given by the top down and he’s never not at 100/10 when he’s delivering his messages.
I’ve been impressed by Pro for years now and he’s only gotten more evolved and sinister (somehow) over the years and risen to the god of that muddy, gritty boom Bap shit!
On this album he doesn’t come alone from fellow Umbrella brothers to the legendary Estee Nack who joins him on a collab track for the fucking ages as we see two S Tier MC’s battle it out on the beat and it’s just absolute perfection to witness.
I’ll have to say, this is easily the best Dirtwave volume yet! From the surreal production to the phenomenal vocal performances and fire features this album gives off the energy of both Pro and Future’s magnum opus!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5TTG2EMr29vd9AAPcdL157?si=YMskedK7RwqedWzK1vbAjg
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