I’ll never be used to the amount of quality music in the industry right now! I used to be a mainstream only head and I used to think Hip Hop is dead UNTIL I discovered the underground and now my heart has changed.
This is a new release I had high hopes for and I can safely say it blew me away! Let’s talk about it!
Brand new album by MC Shaw Calhoune and Producer Four Limbs. Shoutout to Big Eleanor Records for this one because this one goes HARD!
8 tracks and honestly this feels like a sonic Hip Hop equivalent of Cowboy Bebop! It’s fucking sick.
So, the overall vibe of this album. I want you to picture
-Intergalactic
-Space
-Futuristic
Because the way this album is set up it feels like you’re taking a Cowboy Bebop trip across different galaxies while listening to a dope rap album on the way!
There’s this skit called ‘Are You From The Milky Way’ where I assume Shaw is talking to the alien complaining about his backwoods being stale and the whole time the alien is lowkey roasting him and talking shit to him and he just keeps going back to his original point ‘Yeah but the backwoods are stale’
And then it ends with the alien snapping and being like ‘Just Get out, Imma make sure every backwoods in the galaxy is stale before you even get there!’ That skit had me dying and honestly was the first skit in decades I actually enjoyed! I normally hate skits but this one fit well!
But in general, we are talking about an atmosphere that is literally coated in atmosphere. Space, the future, spaceships and the overall ambiance of an adventure set in a galaxy far, far away!
The music is incredible and a surprisingly powerful blend of Hip Hop and Surreal Scores that will make you feel like you’re watching a Steven Spielberg film! It’s funky, gritty, soulful and authentic in all the best ways possible.
It’s the kind of album you listen to that will take your breath away and remove all signs of stress!
This is the first time I’ve heard of this producer, but after this record, he’s one I’ll be keeping a close watch on!
As far as the MC work goes. This man is incredible. I remember I covered him a minute ago, and from how well that record went, I knew I had no reason to worry here, and did he ever deliver!
As hard as I thought it would be to match the overall cinematic experience of the beats, he somehow glides through it with ease!
He’s artistic in his studio presence, expressive and theatrical with how he lands the bars.
His flows are exquisite, and his pen game is both sharp and creative to match the theme at hand.
Every verse absorbs you into a different situation and scene where you feel you’re right there in the spaceship with him! His vivid imagery and complex vocabulary go hand in hand in this concept album, and his charisma is at an all-time high!
Great energy, strong passion, and conviction that come with every one of his lines, and he’s setting a challenge for himself to be as colourful and creative as possible, and he passes with flying colours!
I can’t speak higher of this album if I tried. I guarantee you this will be a journey you WON’T hear this year or probably ever again! A one-of-a-kind release!
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