It’s that time again to discuss a familiar duo I’ve dealt with a few times in 2025. A duo who work as a great dynamic because they both rap and both produce! Considering this fact, let’s get into it!
This is the brand-new EP by the pair of MC/Producers Sabio Dub and Malhee, and together they drop a fresh batch of six tracks with just 11 minutes of content, but considering the players involved, they can make even this length pop! If we start talking about the production aspect of things (as I mentioned, they both play hands in it), we see them take a ride to a more acoustically charged and methodical level of beats that I can’t say I’m familiar with until now!
A perfect example is that opening track -Cloud Surfing, as it literally feels like how the name describes! You have these acoustic-style strings in a plucked looped as well as some sharper chords in the background with some subtle key progressions.
Such a light and bare track to start the EP off, and yet I find one of the most mesmerising cuts off the whole collection!
It’s a different tune (literally) as the song progresses into a more dance vibe with -Gelato Lemonade, as we hear these funky chord progressions combined with that funky beat patterns and soulful vocal rhythm! I wasn’t expecting such a fun and groovy track right after that intro track, but it snapped regardless! It was colourful and expressive in the most ‘sunshine’ way possible!
We have tracks like -Black Bows, which takes a step back into that more methodically paced track with those plucked strings in that repetition loop that’s accompanied by some super raw drums and an unusually light vocal snippet that comes around every five seconds! This felt to me like the most left-field track off the whole EP; it doesn’t really fit any type of genre, but it’s still more on one of the slower sides!
How they close the record off I found was interesting with -Los Dinos as it goes into a more Spanish meets boom-bap route! Probably the more rough and rugged vibe track off the whole EP! You’ve got that hypnotic Spanish-sounding vocal loop, those trap-influenced beat patterns, this choir-inspired second vocal snippet in the background as well as an overall atmospheric vibe across the instrumental!
Each song seems to have its own unique identity and feel to it, which I dug heavily!
The rapping chemistry between these two men is already well documented! Two different styles, personalities, and egos coming together under one harmonious and synchronous system where they both share equal responsibility for bars and beats!
Sabio with his more laidback ‘sunshine rap’ presence and Mal with his more in-your-face and no-nonsense approach make for a good, compelling contrast to one another that’s always refreshing to hear on their duo tapes!
It’s not just the variety of presence, but they both have fantastic pen game, intricate, and at times introspective lyricism. I felt Sabio is back on his more hardcore pen game with more drug talk than he usually would, but he pulled it off with a fluent and breezy flow as he always does!
Mal! Always the one with the serious tone following the lead on topics similar to Sabio, proving a (more often than not) brash/street talk take on the lyrics and verses, which came out incredibly sharp and interesting!
With a chemistry like theirs, they don’t really need any features! They shine brightest together, and they are about to maximise such a short time frame to the absolute peak as they have in the past and as they do so here!
So, if you’re a fan of either of these men or if this is your first time hearing this duo together, then you are in for a treat! Because nobody makes music like these two! Click the link below!
https://open.spotify.com/album/3PqhNVyCQCthGyBv3lbG4j?si=kSNhet_rSEamJ-iylpB5Jg
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