(TWO ZINGS THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS)

Twas the night before the ZINGERS ruled the world one more time. It’s starting to feel a lot like that wavy shit, everywhere you go, and with Xmas around the corner, I ain’t talking Rudolf when I say the animals are coming loose! Let’s get to it!

This is the brand-new album (and sequel) by MC and FEED THE FAMILY member Borirock! His second Christmas album, improving on the first in every way possible!

Across this tape, we have production from

-LARON

-BONEWESO

-REDHANDS

-GRIMM DOZA

-FELONS

-TREMENDISS

And MC features from 

-BLUEHILLBILL

-AL DIVINO

-DUN DEALY

Now, right off the bat, this feels like the last Christmas album on steroids! The production feels stronger, more crisp, and absolutely devastating in execution. Fusing powerhouse sounds with that Xmas vibe to create a fusion we haven’t heard before in this niche subgenre of rap!

Imagine a film score director creating a hip-hop album but with a Christmas hint, and you’ve got this! Absolutely atmospheric beats, big instrumentation, and an overall mastery of elements and influences to take you out of your shell and force your brain to expand and explore the sonic adventure that these producers put you on! 

For example, you have songs like -UNCLE SAM MURDER SPREE, produced by BONEWESO, and once again, he doesn’t know how to miss.

From those long jazz horns to those delicate piano keys and methodical drums to come together for a beat you’d expect to hear on the -INFINITE WAVE project! Its very nature is angelic! 

Or the track -MASTERP, which takes a strong left into the more soulful area with that angelic vocal harmony on loop as well as that separate subtle vocal line in the background! 

This track also includes funky piano keys, plucked bass strings, and more groovy drums to make you feel like you just stepped back into the 70s! It’s absolutely gorgeous! In fact, every track by Bone kills!

I also love the final 30 seconds of the track about a sunglasses robbery! While this news snippet is going on, we hear the classic Christmas-themed music accompanying it!

Taking a more experimental route, we have the second-to-last track -BELICHICK as we are graced by the presence of the Splash god himself, Al! He started this track off accompanied by this ambient/experimental instrumental consisting of what sounds like a synth/flute sample loop across this methodical drum pattern and heavy bass, as well as some sci-fi-inspired chord progression that runs through the whole song! 

This is the perfect soundscape by LARON to utilise the essence of both AL & BORI! A duo we’ve heard plenty of times before as they both present a chemistry that is undeniably strong!

As far as the MC work goes. This feels like the same Bori we got in the ‘INFINITE WAVE & LORD OF THE ZINGZ’ era. To clarify, he hasn’t ever been lacking or boring in his performances. He’s constantly been top 3 MC’s for charisma, eccentricity, and wavy bars! 

But those two albums stand out to me specifically because of the uniquely heavy and focused performances I heard from him! He felt next level on those two tapes (as they came back-to-back), and on this record, he inherits the same locked-in, precise sharpness that could decapitate any beat in front of him!

Even when you look at the aspects such as Bone Weso on production, Dun Dealy on the closing track, a track with Al Divino! So many elements resembling INFINITE WAVE and his energy to match. 

Although this album doesn’t feature as much Christmas relevance as the first one, he makes up for it with extra intensity, ridiculous bar structures, and adlibs, as well as solid features and production to close off the year with an album that is sure to be remembered for years to come!

I’ll never not love the fact that Bori can go from 0-100 in less than a second. How he’s always on top of his game always adrenaline fueled and ready to go berserk on a track as he is here. He’s riding with his brothers across an end of the year surprise drop that highlights the very essence of Bori, FEED THE FAMILY and the associates he made over the years and this album feels like a proper explosive send of to a phenomenal 2025 and I know without a shadow of a doubt the culture will dig it!

So, get your hot chocolates ready, go sit besides the Christmas tree, watch the snow fall and most importantly go bump the new BORIROCK and company as that is truly the best present you can ask for this year! 

https://open.spotify.com/album/4tBdc0CGzcUqfeOISvxEbB?si=e-kOE2DIQDmuzUw0rNyfgg