(WHAT WOULD HARLEY RACE DO)

Jesus Christ. I don’t think I’ve heard a better intro than this! (Actually) I feel with every new album I hear from this man, I fall in love with his intros. If there is an award for ‘Best Intros’, he takes the cake 10x drops in a row. Holy shit.

After an incredible 2025 run, we finally get to hear what this man has to say in the new year, and I can tell you now, it’s absolutely ridiculous! Let’s talk about it!

This is the brand-new album by MC ActionFigure 973 and production from Artificer, and these two drop a solid 12 tracks with the -BrotherTomSoS as the sole feature! 

As I literally just said above, this album starts off swinging! That haunting Harley Race promo with that eerie music behind it? That’s absolutely genius. Couldn’t ask for a better way to start the project off and capture the spirit and essence of one of the greatest wrestlers of all time!

From there, we get the production, which, as I’ve come to expect by any Action drop, has a darker, more serious tone to it that’s masked with intense instrumentation and crisp atmospheric energy that comes hand in hand to create a subgenre of boom-bap influence that you don’t hear every day!

If we look at the second track in -HARLEY AND NASH DRIVING THRU THE HOOD, we hear the combination of those Mexican stand-off vibe guitar strings and methodically paced drums that work in unison to create this tense yet infectious sonic environment that is impossible to ignore! There’s also some wavy chord progression in the background that provides an extra layer of depth to the track!

Or we can talk about the song -WHAT WOULD HARLEY RACE DO, the title track of the album, which provides one of the more lighthearted songs on the record with those soft jazz-inspired piano keys that make you feel like you’ve just walked into one of the most chill cafes of your life. I also love the secondary layer of keys that thud towards the end of the freelance loop, proving that tiny bit of depth to the otherwise angelic piano loop!

I love how skeletal yet infectious this track is. It’s one of the most stripped-back tracks, but it’s also one of my favourites due to its stripped nature!

Of course, who can ignore the song -WWF ICE CREAM BARS, as this is the song with the huge feature on it! Again, we return with those freelance jazz piano keys, and I love the subtle hint of vocal harmony laced across this track, almost like an angel’s breath whispered onto instrumental! This kind of reminds me of a ‘Studio Ghibli’ song in its sonic construction and narrative! 

Of course, BrotherTom kills his verse!

When we discuss the verses, he comes in fast and furious like a Harley Race High Knee, knocking down the beats and putting them in a verbal shoulder breaker!

Whether it’s on this album or others, he’s always laying down that immersive and vivid wordplay and pen game that makes you feel like you’ve just been hit with a gut-wrenching suplex! 

His clever one-liners, puns, and phrases are so swift and witty that you won’t catch them till the last minute like a headbutt drop from the top rope! 

Laying down structured verses like a solid Texas piledriver, he’s leaving his contemporaries and the audience STUNNED with his abilities on the mic. Sometimes he’ll be right up in your face like a cradle suplex, other times he’ll be more obscure and technically sound like a side belly to belly suplex! Either way, once he hits, doesn’t matter if you’re Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Terry, or Dory Funk, you’re staging down for the 3 count!

Of course, even Harley had friends and brothers to rely on. In this occasion, BrotherTom is Action’s Larry ‘The Axe’ Henning. Both men teaming up to cause further devastation on the culture around them and prove their position on top of the hip-hop world!

Action Figure has been passionate about this life since he was 15 years old and will continue to be in it until he says he’s done.