Can this man miss? What a year he’s had so far, and there’s no sign of stopping! From ridiculous singles to dope EP’s and everything in between, we have a man who is hell-bent on having the best discography of 2025, and at this rate, he’ll get there! Let’s talk about it!
Brand new EP by MC FLYG and fellow MC Sportscenter Dre, who I covered together on their single ‘MAZZA GALLERIE’, and since then, I was anticipating what the full project would sound like with the duo, and finally, I don’t have to wonder! Four tracks with 12 minutes of unmatched energy!
Starting with that opening track ‘BACK2BACK’, which features this super melodic instrumental with this beautiful slightly chipmunk vocal loop alongside intricate piano keys and light drums.
This whole track has a ‘soul’ feel to it that just makes you want to lay back and relax!
When talking about the bars, we have FLYG starting off, and he has a lot of great bars on his verse, such as ‘These Bars are Shocking, your hair is guaranteed to fizz’ or ‘Beautiful Fabrics I’m a Star, you a fish like Patrick’.
Just the way he conducts himself on the beat, always thinking of clever one-liners that fit the mood and highlight his eccentric flow and talents as an MC is always sick to hear!
Of course, on the latter end, we have Sportcenter, who has a more in-your-face/aggressive texture to his bars to provide a healthy balance to FLY’s more smooth and collected style!
As expected, he goes off on this track sharp as a razor blade, forceful as an earthquake, and devastatingly effective! Perfect way to close the track off!
Now onto the track ‘HURRICANRANA’, we have what sounds like a more ambient/lo-fi or soul feel to this one.
This production reminds me of the debut album by Norah Jones. Very smooth and luscious. You’ve got those subtle classical-style vocals in the background with those delicate drums and very light piano keys. It’s another beat you just want to go for a walk in the morning of a sunny forest! Beautifully executed.
Now, onto the bars. As the last one, we have FLYG starting things off with a shorter verse than the last track but equally effective! I love his lines ‘I’m fashionably fly, that’s a must, ketchup. Which if you are paying attention is a clever double entendre! Very clever!
Another one I love is ‘come close, you’ll be stuck like a porcupine’.
See, I told you all he’s the man with these bars! The new contender for the one-line king!
As well as this, we of course returned with Sports, who seems to bring a lot more energy and sporadic passion as we hear more adlibs and sharper bars!
I love how on one part he’s shouting out legends like Mobb Deep and LL and then on the next saying lines like ‘Hit you with a dirty D, Jon Moxley’ (meaning DDT).
There’s a lot of different angles and lanes he’s driving in on this one, and I love them all!
Now, track three we have (NITRO VS R@W), another wrestling reference. On this one, there’s a definite soul feel to this one, those male Babyface/James Brown-style vocals across somewhat sounds like different tone violins and groovy drums that hypnotise the audience!
Across this one, we have so many different standout lines from FLYG. For example, ‘The Abstract, your ears are dirty, I suggest you use a Q-Tip’ (if you don’t get that pun, we can’t be friends, fuck you).
Or ‘You must be stupid, dropkick you from the inside of the ring like Billy Kidman’ (how many remember when they gave him the dopest theme song ever? Anyway).
Even lines like ‘You degenerates, suck it’s’.
There’s just so many great memorable lines on this track, and as someone who is a heavy wrestling fan, I loved them all!
Onto Sports, and it seems he’s following the same wrestling energy as FLYG did earlier! We have lines like
‘Bars that will lead you to captivity, it’s time to face your sentence’ FIRE or
‘Hit you with an aggressive blow, rhino the gore’.
These, alongside that dope flow and eccentric energy, and he’s got the whole package!
As far as the finale track goes ‘MAZZA GALLERIE’ I did already do a singles review on this and I loved it and after hearing the rest of the album this was definitely the right choice to put last!
To refresh that review,
I loved the intro where the person talks on the $25 million dollar MAZZA GALLERIE’ I loved how that progressed into a combination of Soul and Gospel vibes with for once on the whole EP Sportscentre starting off with his more raw and aggressive powerful bars taking centre stage and FLYG deciding to send the EP off in the smoothest way possible!
The highlight bars for me on this track was ‘Use to get everything on my Wishlist, even if it wasn’t Christmas’ that was off FLYG’s verse and one that I still think about regularly as a dope line
Overall, this was another fantastic EP by FLYG and this time Sportscenter Dre. They both have remarkable chemistry and work well with the production! Definitely shouldn’t sleep on this!
https://open.spotify.com/album/0NzIO3zhjicLWf6k0a7aWy?si=Tx8TfYlTQP2SB1S1_OGmAg
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