I’ll be honest right off the bat, I hate that the ‘A’ was removed from the word ‘Dark’ gives a motherfucker like me massive OCD.
Now, onto music-related business. We are back with a man who in a short few months’ time span has provided more versatility and creativity than most do in a lifetime and he’s back with yet ANOTHER lane to conquer. Can this man be stopped? Let’s talk about it!
This is the brand-new EP by MC God Gotti and Producer ‘ProdByP’ and together they dropped nine minutes, four songs and enough aura to fill a fucking stadium!
Right from the start we have ‘Dark Intro’ which has this funky NES-sounding jazz music. The kind of jazz you’d hear while waiting on hold on the phone or something! It’s very playful and ambient at the same time with those light drums and colourful chords!
On this track we have a deep spoken word passage introducing the project itself.
Then from there we have ‘Big Worm’ a track I’ve already covered in the past (if I’m not mistaken the second or third single I ever covered of his) regardless it’s super ambient and methodical in structure, you’ve got those long drawn-out bass lines, shrieking keys and what sounds like a slight vocal chord in the far background!
On this track, God uses his pen to make a verse lightly inspired by the antagonist of the classic movie ‘Friday’ Big Worm. His verse although short was composed well, great flow and lyricism. I feel it was more concerned with keeping the surreal pacing of the track than anything else ‘hence the short and to the point wordplay’
After that we have ‘Close Call’ a more upbeat and flavoured track compared to the last two. This track has a certain ‘Folk meets Boom Bap’ feel to
it. You’ve got those angelic and harmonic what sounds like flute keys gliding across the beat with some synth-style keyboard keys on loop and some light drums! It’s quite the work of art!
But then in the last 40 seconds, we get this J Dilla-inspired beat switch loop with short bursts of vocal snippets and plucked strings and subtle drums! It’s refreshing and provides some extra creative points to the track and showcases more of P’s skill behind the board!
As far as God goes on that track, he only rapped for the first half, but his bars were a lot more focused, precise, and on centre. Thunderous delivery with sharp wordplay and puns to keep
you on your feet as a listener!
On the final track, we have ‘Neck Brace’, which has probably the most somber vibe of the whole album! With those lower-registered notes in reputation giving kind of an ‘80s club playing in the background’ from the outside looking in time vibes to it.
It is certainly vibing but in a more relatively ‘separated’ aspect compared to a loud, bright, and warm experience you’d expect being inside the club or dance floor!
On this track, we have God end his contributions on the EP with style! He’s sharp, energetic, charismatic, and powerful in his voice and flow. He’s upped his pen game and provided the audience with a more demonstrative performance than on the last two tracks and goes off with a bang!
Speaking of going off in a bang, this track actually ends with guest MC ‘Miskeen Haleem’, usually associated with ‘Sabio Dub’, but comes to help conclude the track in his trademark gritty and in-your-face style that would normally be the perfect contrast to the lighter, relaxed Sabio, but on this one, he actually shows fantastic chemistry with God Gotti!
Overall, I enjoyed this EP for what it was. I wasn’t sure what inspired the artwork and name, as besides the intro track, I didn’t get much ‘dark or sinister’ vibes as I was expecting to get going in, but regardless, it’s a fun and groovy 9 minutes and one definitely worth checking out!
https://open.spotify.com/album/7K1Re7wVBBgKHCLDPf3HWo?si=uKzxT9eNS3ytgYqDlmjqJw
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