It’s always a pleasure to be hooked up with new music by a person who has a great ear for the music itself. This is my third project in a row that has the influence of ‘Ceverely Yours’ that I’ve covered, and I never seem to be disappointed. With two dope MC’s and a handful of producers, this one is definitely for the record books! Let’s talk about it!
This is the brand-new album by MC’s Maine, The Medicine, & Son Lee with production from
-JL Studios
-DJ Gatsby
-Nate Will x Simon
-BlackMagic
-ThisIsHipHopp
-JazzyLionMan
-Skip The Kid
And right off the bat, I have to give applause to the various hands on deck for this one. Because it’s not easy to synchronise so many hands in the kitchen and create a fluent record, but they managed to pull it off here! If I had to describe this album in a few short words, it would have to be ‘theatrical score’ because it has that larger-than-life, thrilling aspect in the instrumentation that makes this feel like a modern-day underground equivalent of a ‘James Bond’ or, as the film title ‘Mr And Mrs Smith’ suggests, it’s that level of grand, and I love it!
First of all, I love that no-nonsense intro! It’s literally just 13 seconds of the most brief and to-the-point description of the name, artists, and that’s it! Exactly how you’d expect a Daniel Craig James Bond to talk! No fluff!
With the very first official track – Forever, we get this incredibly soulful instrumental with those gorgeous vocal loops, cinematic chord progressions, and those fantastical piano keys that have a choir/organ feel to them in its sharpness! A great ‘official’ way to start the album off!
There’s the track -Assassin Attack, which is a track I loved because prior to this, you had the skit -Call The Assassin, which has another straightforward bit of a phone call, which again gives me a strong 007/Mr. and Mrs. Smith vibes!
And as the official song starts, it has this mellow, sombre vibe to it with those haunting, intricate piano chords and overall atmospheric vibe and rhythmic drum patterns that all come together in this thought-provoking/soul-searching vibe that I fucked with heavily!
Another track I fucked with heavily was the song -Calculated Moves. This one has a heavy classical essence to it with those fast-paced orchestral keys combined with those methodical drum beats that sound like a chord running through the entire track in the background! All the layers remind me of some Victorian-era music combined with underground hip hop! It’s colourful, eccentric, and feels like the perfect vessel for the MC’s to go off on!
Hell, even the final outro spoken by Ceverely Yours is yet again straight to the point and fits the narrative of the skits. Just 14 seconds of no nonsense, and I feel it’s the perfect outro for this rather special album!
Speaking of ‘special’, we have the immaculate chemistry between MC’s Maine, The Medicine, and Son Lee! I had experienced these two in the past with the album ‘Skip The Formalities’, and they definitely impressed me there, but this is a grander scale of observation on their work and their chemistry, and I can safely say even on a bigger scale, they still rock the house!
Across these tracks, we hear both of them honing in on their chemistry, their individual styles and skills, as well as their own personal and conceptual writing feats that I found throughout the tracks!
They weren’t just rapping; they were actively working on creating and spitting lyrics that are in the same breath and concept as the album title, and I loved that they actually put the effort in to making sure the pen game matched the album’s content!
Obviously they’ve already shown how much they can work alongside each other but on a bigger scale they upped their game 10x fold and became somehow even more tight and dynamic together as a duo. The back and fourths, the trust that the other will deliver on the verses on the end, their synced performances and energy is amazing and not to mention infectious.
Nothing worse then listening to a duel MC album only to hear that the two in question don’t vibe well together which in turn ruins the sonic aesthic of the entire record! Thankfully we don’t have to worry about that problem here as these two match as good as you’ll hear anywhere!
Make sure you check this one out below! It’s got that vibrant production laced with even colder lyricism! You can’t get better than that!
-Shoutout to Suspect for his contributions on the album!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5C4RFug0Mbx6RHU06AW9xs?si=-eOE1sZiR8O5zN2sEcQZ8Q
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