This time around, this is a combination of discovering a new artist and re visiting an artist I’m well established with, which causes an exciting experience of discovery and expectations that I fuck with heavily. In saying that, let’s get to the album!
This is the brand-new album by MC S-18 and produced by my main man Kheyzine! They lay out a fresh 13 tracks with the likes of
– BLACK PRINCE
– V-12
– NONCHALANTLY ZAY
A whole collection of features that are also new to me, which means I’m bound to experience something unique and fresh! I want to quickly shout out that intro track. I loved it because it started with acknowledging everyone that is part of the album, from the features to who made the artwork! Not many do that, and so I appreciated hearing that!
I want to discuss S-18 first as he’s the part I haven’t heard of yet. In my experience listening to this record, I found he has a rather raw and heavy presence when he raps. He sounds like a man with solid conviction and authenticity within himself!
It’s like, you know when you meet someone or hear someone who has proper morals? A man who isn’t sold out or bought. A man who stands on his own two feet and doesn’t break no matter what is put in front of him?
Well, this is the vibe I’m getting from this man! He sounds solid, he has the cadence and vibe of someone who stands on his own principles and discipline to get everything he wants and has, and that type of energy takes over this record!
His rhymes on here are more methodical than most! He takes time to deliver each line to make them felt! Every word feels like a bar of gold, and he makes them shine as such! A smooth and calculated flow combined with his verbal slaughtering and impressive vocabulary, which he uses to make the best possible verses possible!
The features he decided to bring on this record (considering this is the first time I’ve heard them) lay their verses down HARD and provided the perfect chemistry to S and actually elevate the record instead of just being there for ‘feature sake’.
Speaking of Kheyzine now. This is a man who has quietly yet surely been building a formidable production discography in 2025, one that might be overlooked by many lists but one I’ve definitely been paying attention to!
What makes him such a deadly threat in the industry is how he’s able to use any kind of influence and genre and utilise it to create a banger!
He doesn’t have a ceiling of what kind of music he can or can’t work with. He’s a music thesaurus with every single kind of genre in his head to use at any given moment, and that’s what makes him so ridiculously talented!
Let’s just look at some of these tracks! First of all, we have the track -Someday, Somehow’, which has this funkadelic type vocal performance on the chorus with what sounds like a prime RZA example beat!
Those looped intricate piano keys and drums! One of those minimal type productions that sink into the audience’s soul and body!
THEN ON THE VERY NEXT TRACK, we have -Bronze Dinner Pl8, which has a completely different vibe with these classical orchestra vocal cords on loop accompanied by some grand horns and light, methodical drums! This sounds like a theatrical interlude then a track, but it’s still absolutely epic!
Or we can even look at the track -Fork Change, which has this 90’s East Coast flavour to it. You’ve got those heavy piano keys on that loop with two different octaves!
On top of that, you have a second piano pattern in the background as well as some light taps to give an extra level of depth to an already minimal track!
My point being is that ONCE AGAIN, Kheyzine proves he can utilise any kind of sound, influence, and inspiration to create magic, and alongside a super dope MC as S-18, he created another banger!
Make sure you go check it out below!
https://open.spotify.com/album/7na2XYSdpM8AEjrpsnAeWU?si=Qs-tvYcPT2C5oLfyqhc_ew
The Serpent Tongue Reviews 