(UnPretty)

It’s that time of the month again! Where we are treated to one of the most incredible runs in hip hop history. Non-stop monthly drops that have changed the game and bar for what ‘quality measures up to’, and now we are back and the question is ‘does it hold up?’ Let’s go!

This is the brand-new collaboration project between MC P-Ro and producer UglyJon, and together they drop a fresh 12 tracks with 34 minutes, featuring the likes of 

-OGBenGrimm

-Jae Hussle

-G-Fam Black 

-Sankofa

Across this project, we hear P-Ro as mean as we’ve ever heard him. Continuing the run of what I like to describe (based on his previous record) as the home run flexing. He’s focusing his efforts on complete raw energy, dominating wordplay, rough and rugged delivery execution, and a conviction so fucking strong that not even Man of Steel could break!

Across this project, I feel he’s inherited a special kind of swagger that I don’t remember him having prior. I hear his background vocals and the way he’s shouting out people, introducing certain players, his own verbal abuse in the form of adlibs, and more.

It’s as if he’s let go of any and all ideas of ‘holding back’ and just letting his bad attitude towards the competitors and nay-sayers spiral until it formed a sonic abyss full of gritty textures, distasteful substance, and a mouth with bars that won’t quit and that will spit circles around 90% of the clowns and their circuses today!

Of course, not alone, he has his trusted brothers with him to help guide that severe case of grit and muddy conviction sharp enough to cut the head off of any hater before they even have time to talk shit! The real ‘band of brothers’

As far as the production goes on this thing. As we’ve heard in times past, UglyJon is more than qualified to engineer the devastating sounds so tough and ruthless that it would make Vin Diesel rather massacre his family than dare step to these beats! Come to life for P-Ro.

Across the 12 tracks, we have tracks like ‘Uggo Muggos’, which has these menacing chord progressions with those heavy bass lines and drums so thudding that it feels like it’s a repetitive kick in the chest with each thud! Not to mention those synth chords that give off a strong ‘drama/thriller’ vibe to the whole track!

Then we have tracks like ‘Cracked Mirror’, which has a more rare ‘groove/Jazz’ element to it with those funky strings, intricate keys, and light Jazz drums that come together for a rare delicate moment on the album!

Then we have tracks like ‘Taste The Dirt’, which brings back the boom bap flavour with those close-cut vocal snippets and choir-style loops.

As well as those subtle jazz chords and surreal drums that come together for a gritty minimal track that makes you feel P-Ro’s frustration and personal lyricism to its fullest!

All this to say that once again, Ugly understood the assignment of making beats that are an extension of a man like P-Ro, and it comes out phenomenally!

Another Stella record by these two and another solid project in an almost year’s worth of albums! Don’t you dare sleep on this one! 

https://open.spotify.com/album/6PImn6SetDXImTW6GMu5qr?si=7u-uC-5JRLa3DaR2xjbdtA