First of all, such a TOUGH album title. Wouldn’t have expected anything less from the GAWD himself. After spending the last few years building his discography and working with the best of the best, he’s found himself in the presence of a producer who has defined the term ‘iconic’ and with that in mind, let’s talk about it!
This is the brand-new album from MC Ferris Blusa & Producer Swab! This dynamic duo comes strong with nine tracks, 25 minutes of content, and enough charisma and confidence to umbrella the whole fucking culture!
We may as well start with Ferris. It’s like every time I hear a new project from him, all the qualities I praised in previous projects get elevated and improved from the last. This is a man who may as well be crowned ‘The Underground’s Preacher’ as that’s how his performances feel to me, strong, in-depth, and heavy in execution.
As a man who grew up in the church, these qualities I admired and can pinpoint from a mile away, and that’s exactly what makes Ferris so special!
The way he handles the beats, the way his wordplay soaks into the instrumentals and lingers in your mind for hours after the music has stopped. The way his vivid and lethal lyricism cuts through your mind and forces you to mean-mug the world around you just trying to process and take in his verses and grand feats of penmanship that he’s providing the world! It’s actually insane!
The way his vocabulary can capture the essence of his spirit and soul. The way he always seems to create a grand vision that feels heads over the rest of the competition because it feels less like a standard hip-hop album but more like a cinematic score that should be equipped to a live-action movie! Absolutely unreal the way he works the mic!
Speaking of unreal, we have Swab. He’s been a man who has elevated the culture for almost the last decade with his various work on other projects and even his own instrumental work that has been as grand as I’ve ever heard it! Working with the best you can find, it was only natural
he’d end up in the path of the GAWD, and man, I knew it would be, but I couldn’t have expected this! Holy shit.
First of all, one of the main qualities that makes Swab so compelling is the fact he can perfectly execute and capture the atmosphere needed per artist.
So, depending on the vibe or sound, characteristics of the artist in question, he can form their own sonic domain to accommodate their personalities, and that’s why this thing is GARGANTUAN in design due to the man at the helm!
So on this one, we can have a variety of different levels of influences and samples that I feel synchronised quite well with one another.
It’s like a combination of Classical, Jazz, Boom
Bap, Orchestral, and Soul. Each element is utilised in their own unique ways to create nine distinctive instrumentals that stand out from each other. For example, we have tracks like
-Break Bad, which has one of the more cinematic feels to it. On this one, there’s those deep and theatrical vocal loops that wrap around the whole track!
There’s also those thudding drum patterns, those mesmerising scratches, rhythmic piano keys, and towards the end, these light synth chord parts that add a little bit of fun texture to the song!
There’s the song -Bernic Mac, which has now female vocals on the introduction of the song that later evolves into these sharp piano chord progressions, wavy synths, and this underlying bass that wraps the whole track together! I just LOVE the heavy and raw feel this track provides!
Hell, we can even talk about the track -The Y.A.M.S, which has one of those Cold, straight boom bap influences with a combination of those hypnotic drum beats, that ridiculously charged plucked strings, those choir-style vocal harmonies, and haunting keys!
I also love those swaying chord progressions that come to make this track feel that little bit more groovy in the overall presentation!
This collaboration was bound to be a banger from the get go but I still couldn’t or expected this. Two legends came together to create a damn near classic. Make sure you click in below and experience it for yourself!
https://open.spotify.com/album/6sMkdlI0nODmBWIaQkhA0e?si=VqS-MGTESleMCYAm_ury6Q
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