Man, what a fun collaboration that I wasn’t expecting. Two MC’s I’ve had more than enough experience with over the years, and to see them both collide is an underground dream come true! So without further ado, let’s get into what is sure to be an absolutely incredible EP!
This is the brand-new EP by MC’s Ant Kelly and FlyG, produced by Ant Kelly himself!
With the feature of King Adroit, and this thing has so much flavour that it’s ridiculous! Let’s break it down!
On the opening track ‘Louie Dumps’, you have this beautifully arranged classical vocal track that loops around these low-key strings for a minimal yet effective intro that, if I’m not mistaken, samples ‘A Bronx Tale’ (I hope I’m thinking of the right film here), but regardless, a very classy introduction to an EP all produced again by Ant!
Now onto track two ‘Mind Of Jaws’, which, in my opinion, has my favourite instrumental of the whole EP! It has this old-school, a cappella group singing that just gives me goosebumps. It’s so smooth and free that I can’t help but groove to the sound of it!
On top of this track, we finally hear verses starting with Ant, who comes in with his swift and fast-paced motions with his incredible flow and sharp movements across the beat!
Never a break in his style, incredible breathing control, and organic rhythm! All this can be said the same for FLYG! Except for the fact that he provides a more methodical contrast to the fast Ant, and that’s the chemistry and contradictions I love most across this record!
As usual, we hear FLYG focusing on his one-liners and puns, as he’s been making that his mission across 2025, improving more with every project and single!
Onto track 3, we have ‘Sacred Wisdom’, which is fucking incredible once again. I mean, man, this swing-inspired loop tugs at my heartstrings as nostalgia takes over because this is the kind of music that you’d hear on those classic mafia flicks like Goodfellas or Mean Streets! Music I still listen to to this day! So hearing that loop brought a smile to my face!
Now, let’s talk about the MC work. As was the last track, we have Ant starting the track with an almost bouncy flow where he meshes with the instrumental in the most organic way possible! His words somehow land on the beat patterns perfectly; it’s incredible how he’s about to line up his bars with the production, truly magic!
FLYG! This time around, he actually sounds more fluent and fast-paced than he usually does. Maybe it’s this upbeat instrumental causing both men to step their games up and try to match rhythm for rhythm. Either way, it was impressive and surprising to see him step out of his usual and speed up, which reveals the scary (scary for the rest of the culture) fact that he’s really good at this lane and can do both proficiently if he wanted to. He’s just being generous, only sticking to one lane!
Either way, incredible verse! I loved his line ‘Open your mind, there’s a lot of space to be filled in there/only thing I really see taking up your living room is a fancy chandelier’ dope line!
Now onto the final track ‘Divine Poetry’, which has yet another classical taste on the instrumental, with a more subtle vocal loop than the other tracks so far. This one has more emphasis on the instrumentation with these jazz-style horns and light bass lines! A perfect fit for an outro track!
As usual, Ant started off gliding through the incredibly subtle track with sharp and smooth vocals and performances! He actually sounds more relaxed in this one, as if he recorded this one knowing it was the final track. He sounds satisfied and complete while he remains relaxed and ‘divine’ across this verse!
Second verse FLYG and this is the one track where we hear his usual trademark ‘I said Umm’ just a random thing I noticed. Anyway on this track he’s back to his methodically paced verse that consists of his usual aura and charisma where he prove evidence why he doesn’t have to move fast for anyone!
He’s on his own time and with his complex vocabulary and verbal assaults he doesn’t need to move fast to decapitate the haters! Short but devastating verse!
Here comes the feature verse by main man King Adroit! Who spices things up with his fast paced, in your face and verbally savvy bars that light up the track! He’s a lot more charismatic then expected and he drops different styles, fast paced, methodical, quirky one liners and puns and everything in between!
He can truly rap his ass off and I love that he was put at the end of the outro track like a verbal bomb waiting to go OFF!
This I have no doubt will be mentioned in my
Top EP’s of November list. The instrumentation is minimal yet beautifully done and the verses even more so!
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