In my opinion. You’d have to be a fool to discredit 23IncredibleIndustries’ takeover of 2025. They’ve released some of the most captivating and entertaining albums with the most replay value.
-Infinite Wave
-CCE
– THEHIDDENSPLASH, just to name a few. These guys are in control and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. With this new single, we see the takeover of one of the collective’s biggest names and talents in ERG ONE, and after hearing this track (including his numerous dope verses across the other albums), this upcoming album has the potential to be ‘AOTY’. Let’s talk about why!
Brand new single. Featuring the MC ERG ONE and Producer Bone Weso. By no means strangers to each other, but to hear a single featuring just them two gets me more excited than most releases so far!
This track is 2 minutes long and has hours on hours of replay value! Writing this, I’ve already played this 10x over and expected to binge it another 50x more before I turn it off!
Let’s start with production. What we have here is Bone showing his melodic and soulful side with that beautiful vocal harmony on loop that makes this track feel like it’s gliding on a cloud! Absolutely gorgeous!
Accompanying those vocals, we have these thick bass lines, light keys in the background, and a very subtle what sounds like violin and strings to help give this track a tad more substance and atmosphere!
A very stripped-back feel to it, but it works! Bone Weso is one of those one-in-a-billion producers who can turn anything into a classic, no matter how larger-than-life or skeletal in execution!
And as has become trademark, he ends this track with some dramatic telling of some big event or social commentary.
This time around, it’s about some art heist that still has yet to be solved! He’s been dropping these cinematic reports across all his albums!
In HIDDENSPLASH it was about gorilla warfare, in INFINITEWAVE it was about the control of big pharma and now it’s about an art heist! They are always something I look forward to across his production!
Now onto the MC work, as I said before ERG is no stranger to Bone and a man that must be on everyone’s mind as he’s appeared on most of 23’s releases and absolutely destroys those verses so it’s only natural when he’s on his own single that he takes over!
On this track, he’s as smooth as punctuational as ever. He delivers a more ‘classy’ approach to street poetry with his elegant flow combining with his vivid imagery in his pen game and ferocious lyricism that would leave any haters in his wake decapitated!
He’s able to turn 2 minutes of verse feel like a sacred story by a legendary author! When he talks the world listens and the way he just stops rapping towards the end after spending the rest of the 2 minutes going off, sharp and precise and he just so casually ends his bar and stops.
To anyone else, they’d need some complicated or vibrant moment to close the track off but not ERG. He just stops and it doesn’t ruin the track or feel abrupt at all, he’s just that fucking smooth.
To say I’m excited for this new release is a massive understatement. I’ve supported and bought every single 23 album this year and this will definitely be another to the list! Make sure you support and listen now!
https://open.spotify.com/album/3kUaEjMDa8vhxD9BfD6qtj?si=oFu0uC9JRLWIpJ4ZFHFtzw
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