As a supporter of the underground, can you ask for a greater gift than this? jackpot records has been feeding us for months now and now they are literally giving away free meals! And I ain’t talking throw away scraps I’m talking 5 star Michelin entrees for everyone to dine on and this is their latest item one that is bound to keep you satisfied! Let’s go!
This is the surprise brand new album by MC DATKIDBRAVO with 16 dope tracks that were produced by a serious of different producers and bound to me ridiculous in every single sense of the word!
Why? Because it’s DATKID and anything he touches turned to gold.
Starting with the production, as expected he dives into his more comfortable darker, grittier and unforgiving territory of sinister minimal instrumentals with a level of eerie detail attached to the songs!
He’s been riding this wave for the duration of my knowledge of him and he seems to only get stronger with every release!
For example we have tracks like -MAXIMUS which has this haunting chord progression running through the song on some dark loop, accompanied by some creepy methodical keys, heavy bass, surreal drums and some shrieking strings that come in and out of the song at will. This song literally feels like a song you’d hear on a show like ‘Supernatural’ right before the episodes main monster kills its next victim! Truly an unreal experience!
Even the song right after it -PASTEL although lighter in comparison it still has aspects such as that heavy and in your face Jazz horns which sound slightly manipulated to appear that much more unnerving in execution! As well as this we have some more raw drum patterns, disgustingly heavy bass and some various adlib sounds throughout the song!
The song -TOAST+ICE TEA has a more a soulful and skeletal vibe attached to it as we see these vocal snippets on loop that is accompanied by some lighter Jazz Horns, plucked strings and some super subtle drums !
This track is interesting because as we hit the chorus aspect we hear what sounds like violin strings and some different style of vocals in a seperate layer! This probably has the most variety in one song across the tape!
Another song that stood out to me was -N**GAS IN RUSSIA (first of all wild name) secondly I felt it was the perfect finale track for a new DATKID album to go off on!
Firstly, this has trap meets splashy boom Bap vibe! It’s something I can’t say I’ve ever heard before and I found it infectious as fuck.
You’ve got these high pitched, electric keyboard keys that are on loop in this lively manner! Ontop of these you get the transition of those hypnotic bass chord progressions coming in and kicking you in the chest with its might!
I honestly was blown away by this track (most notably) because I wasn’t expecting it! It was the perfect show stopping magic trick to pull out the hat to close up this fantastically produced record!
Speaking of magic, we have DATKIDBRAVO! A man I became hooked on ever since his work on LYNN TO MILAN and he hasn’t failed to impress me since! He’s not only shaking up the world and culture as we know it but he’s one of three monster trio new generation MC’s that I feel are going to lead the way in decades to come!
Across this tape, he utilises these 16 tracks just as powerfully as I expected him too! He’s got this methodically crafted flow that’s equal parts mastered and malevolent as can be. With every bar spits he sounds like he’s always 10 steps ahead, he has this unique cadence about him that screams brash superiority while maintains his threatening take on street poetry.
It’s like listening to an intense author reading an audible. Each word crawls under your skin, each verse giving goosebumps and each album leaves impression on your mind, soul and heart.
Not only this, but his fluency is insane. He doesn’t know how to skip a beat! Doesn’t know how NOT to be consistent. Especially on this album, beat to beat his words sync with the instrumentals like venom to Eddie or Paulie Heyman to legends. He always delivers such vivid and powerful performances that your left mind blown after each listen.
Across this tape he’s seen with one feature being ‘SWIZZY’ who accompanies his own style and energy rather nicely and provides his own contrast that helps increase the song and album replay value overall!
Man, this was a gift I didn’t know I needed until now. I mean just say that sentence out loud to yourself
‘A BRAND NEW DATKIDBRAVO ALBUM BY JACKPOTRECORDS’ FOR FUCKING FREE! If that doesn’t speak hunger in you to listen to this album then In the words of Paulie Walnuts
‘GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE’
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