(Serenity)

Man, what a fucking year for 6th Man! They’ve been swarming the field, and now we have yet ANOTHER record by one of their strongest soldiers! Don’t believe me? Let’s talk about it and prove you wrong! 

This is the brand-new record by MC Powerhouse Crotona P and Produced Silent Someone! With a fresh 11 tracks and the likes of 

-MONEY MOGLY

-DOZA THE DRUM DEALER

-LEX NYRE

-BROGAWD

-M DOC DIEGO

-MR. RIPLEY

-MIKE TITAN

-SLIK JACK

-G FAM BLACK

And I gotta be honest with you all, what surprised me first and foremost was how groovy the production was! This is shown immediately in the first few tracks with that intro track having those delicate and plucked keys alongside that 90’s vibe hip-hop feel and those high-strung synth chords! 

Then we have that almost Mexican/Spanish festive outro that makes me feel like I’m at some dance event, and it got my body dancing for sure! 

As the album goes on, it continued that lavishly executed vibe with constant scratch work by -JS-1 who provides the record with that classic era influence throughout the track!

On this record, we have elements of

-Soul

-Funk

-Jazz

-Gospel

There’s a variety of sources to draw from across this album, and not to mention the fact we have the surprise addition by Doza! I love his recent collaboration with 6th Man as he’s one of the strongest producers out right now, and he always adds amazing flavour to the record!

I fucking love how fluent and eccentric the instrumentals are on this record! I was expecting them to be tough, gritty boom-bap variations, but no, it’s providing a more soothing and atmospheric experience that really helps highlight the style and nature of Crotona’s bars and characteristics on the beats!

Speaking of the man, we have Crotona himself. A man that’s always been a standout for me in the 6th Man crew! Although the whole collective is dope, he’s definitely up there with Seed and them! 

What makes Crotona such a unique MC is his style and his way he handles himself on the mic.

He has such a technical talent that it just reminds me of verbal alchemy set. The man is Edward Elric on the beat (if you know, you know), switching it up, manipulating beats, re arranging paces and structures, trying out different rhythms, executing clever one-liners, phrases, double entendres, vividly told stories, and more.

This man can and DOES do it all every time he gets onto a track, and when he’s laced with a full record with the likes of Silent Someone, he’s sure to go off in a big way!

I love how he complemented the beats given, how he syncs with them instead of against them, and he brings new life to the already busting instrumentals and speaks soul into them. I love how he’s able to not only maintain but thrive against those various MC’s enlisted on the features! Names a lot would say are some of the best going right now, and yet he still holds his own!

Every time I get the pleasure to hear a Crotona feature verse, EP, or LP, I know I’m in for a treat, I know I’m going to be shown the true art of lyricism, and he never disappoints! Going a round I didn’t expect with his production, proving even further without a doubt that he’s one of the best rappers alive, period!