It would be very easy for anyone to pick this man as having the best run of 2025. Every project he dropped was ridiculous and further pushed the narrative of him being one of the dopest we’ve heard in the underground.
As the new year comes around, we are given this teaser that serves as a sign of what’s to come and if it’s anything as good as what we got last year then count me as excited! Let’s talk about it!
This is the brand-new single by powerhouse MC Recognize Ali and Producer D-Styles and together they drop a solid 3 minutes and 13 seconds of pure, unadulterated fire!
Starting the track off with an epic intro snippet of a woman interviewing ‘ninja man’ dancehall legend! who asks ‘How many children do you have?’ And the man replied 23, with 22 baby mothers, REAL BAD MON’ and this is the intro for the song!
As the beat kicks off we have this heavy-handed, in-your-face gritty instrumental that reminds me of that 90’s East Coast shit fused with modern-day underground boom-bap! You have those high-pitched synth chords that play on a loop alongside those rhythmic drum patterns, and slick bass strings that are ever so subtly going off in the background! There’s also some acoustic-style guitar strings as the song hits its middle chorus part and this whole track comes together in a minimal yet dope execution by one of the dopest beat makers we’ve got!
Not to mention those cuts provided throughout the track to further emphasise that 90’s feel! He’s got the whole vibe checked!
Of course when talking about Ali you can expect absolute, relentless aggression and power and that’s exactly what we got here!
As expected, he showcases his unforgiving & cold display of sharp flow, incredible wordplay with his impressive versatility and knowledge of vocabulary to give us some of the earliest examples of dope bars in 2026.
I always love hearing Ali’s killer aura, his classic rhyme structures that pay homage to the 90s and early 2000s as he’s used his time and experience to perfect his craft and create killer bars that resonate with the audience and culture alike!
He’s so fucking deadly with his one-liners, his set-up bars, his vivid imagery and undeniable charisma; he’s got everything locked and he utilises it every single time he’s on a track, and this one is no exception!
You’d be a REAL BAD MON if you weren’t interested in fucking with this track! It’s old school meets the best of the new school, and both production and performance go HARD! Check it out below!
https://open.spotify.com/album/18fCUgIgFdd85aGl1y7i5u?si=bIxmLXbsTy-mPFHV-sOiew
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