Well, this was a combination I didn’t expect to see! Two men who have captivated the underground in different lanes. Both men I’ve reviewed and have mad respect for! So to see them come together for a project has me more hyped than you can imagine! With that in mind, let’s fucking go!
This is the brand-new EP between MC Hank Dope & Producer Kut One, and together they drop a solid five tracks (alongside five instrumental variations of the songs), and it features the likes of
– Reek Osama
– Yasin
– Planet Asia
– Outti
For such a short project, this has some powerhouse names accompanying it! Turns out the best of the best want to have their names associated with this explosive collaboration, and I don’t blame them!
Across these five tracks, we hear Kut incorporate his trademark raw, gritty, and cinematic soundscape to create an intense but powerful score that makes you feel like you’re walking through one of the roughest streets at midnight!
Each track has a combination of heavy-handed strings, hypnotic bass notes, sadistic drum patterns, as well as a dark ambient atmosphere that makes each track feel eerie and haunting in execution!
I love the fact that each song under the three-minute mark but packs so much heat! A combination of minimally layered instrumentals where each instrument is emphasised to its most crisp and smooth destination.
Kut is one of those producers that knows how to master each and every sound on a track. He knows how to mix each aspect until it sounds grand and theatrical! This sounds more like a movie score for Tarantino than it does your average hip-hop album! The way he’s able to create a fluent feel between each of the five songs and make them work alongside each other is beautiful to see! An absolutely brilliant performance by one of the dopest in the industry!
Hank. One of the earliest reviews names I’ve done, he’s always been on his grimy shit. A man who knows no filter or concept of losing. Each album or EP has had ‘banger’ written all over it, and this time he hit another home run!
Although only five tracks to go off on, he doesn’t waste a second!
We get his notorious vivid street raps in spades, sounding like he’s rapping said bars on the street corner himself! It sounds so authentic and dirty that I wonder if he’s rapping or just describing what he’s seeing in the world around him!
Always one to spit verbal assaults across the tracks, clever bars, sharp wordplay, devastating descriptions, and a brand of street poetry that is unlike any other. People like him and Reek Osama have a way with words that makes you want to stay away from the streets, while most find ways to glorify it; these two men point out clear as day the DANGER behind that lifestyle, no sugar coating!
Speaking of Reek, he’s here in spades. I always love hearing him and Hank collaborate; their fusion is unmistakable, and their verses work hand in hand with each other. I love that he’s on two of the tracks!
Not to mention a song alongside the legend Planet Asia! If that ain’t bragging rights for both Hank and Reek, I don’t know what is!
Yasin also spit his shit on the second track, as all guests sound on top form across this short but intense EP!
You’d be a fool not to give this one a shot! It’s every bit as grimy as I expected it to be, and I can definitely see this being on my repeat list for months to come! Link below!
https://choppingblockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/death-won-t-stop-us
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