Once again, I’m given the opportunity to discover a new artist who has created a record that is not only unique but one that is sure to re shape the underground as we know it! Let’s talk about it!
This is the brand-new album by MC Ayse Chryst with production from
-Johnny Slash
-Panik
-Loopwhole Beats
-June Marx
-Lord Nexus
-Ben Workin
And MC features from
-Mondo Slade
-GS Advance
-Spit Gemz
Now, if we start with the production, we are provided with some of the most engaging and interesting instrumentals I’ve heard in a minute!
For example,
Track ‘HOLY BASTERD’ has this holy and graceful energy with this consistent female vocal loop that’s ever so angelic. It has these rhythmic drum beats and some light keys in the background! For an intro, this is the best way to phase the audience into what happens to be one of the most fresh records you’ve heard in a minute!
Track 2 ‘INTIMIDATION FAKTOR’ is just as dope but for different reasons. This track reminds me of the prime mid-2000s mainstream rap instrumentals! The kind you’d expect to hear on a 50 Cent or D12 project!
It’s got those chilling piano keys, those heavy-as-fuck bass & drums. It’s got these haunting what sounds like violin strings and these elegant chords that are repeated throughout the track!
Even if we look at the track down the line like ‘KONFRONTATION’ where it has that sick Homer intro, we get into a true boom-bap, East Coast homage type track that’s as minimal as it is grand!
You’ve got these choir-style vocals that are every bit surreal as they are harmonic! Accompanied by these, we have more hypnotic drums and some epic 80’s/90’s style cuts and scratches that pay respect to the golden era!
With only a few layers, this track showcases that ‘less can be more’ and this is a prime example!
The production across this album is truly insane. With a variety of influences and genres to take inspiration from and all executed perfectly!
As far as Ayse goes. This man has an intensity and charisma that I barely hear anymore. A type of aggression and ruthlessness that you used to only hear in the 90s, but he’s here in today’s era wrecking havoc around the tracks!
I love his cutthroat energy and savage cadence. Every word he spits feels like an earthquake across the track! He sounds pissed, and best believe he’ll tell you what he’s angry about without any filter, just brutal honesty!
Across the album, he sounds like he’s one breath away from a heart attack, and that’s the type of energy missed today! Back when we had the Onyx, Ol Dirty Bastard, Eazy-E’s, 2Pac, the real AUTHENTIC spitters who didn’t think twice about releasing their full emotions across the tracks without a second thought as to anyone else’s fragile feelings or how they’d take it, and I feel the same vibe off this man!
Whenever a man can spit alongside the likes of my main man MONDO SLADE, then you know he’s the real deal. Not many can say he can keep up with an underground legend like him, and Ayse not only stands up to him but remains toe-to-toe with his lyricism and flow!
That is the same for the other incredible features across this record! Fantastic chemistry that elevates the tracks involved!
If you ain’t on this record, then it’s YOUR downfall! This man’s MC characteristics and the production and feature crew he brought with him are nothing to fuck with! Go check it out below!
https://open.spotify.com/album/0XPJgUT4Pkq69Duu9VdKQD?si=OOdyWN3BQ8qJ79fnHON_mw
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