Art of Fighters Resurrection

Art of Fighters - Resurrection 

Resurrection - The interlude during this intro almost sounds like a classical Japanese melody then kicks into an amazing display of hardcore mastery with a lead synth that demands the listener to stomp around the room.

Fuck You! - Wow what a super deep kick drum AOF are using on this track. The soft synth sounds like it could be a lead if only the distorted it. That's why I feel they should have traded the lead with the rhythm.

Rocket - A trippy outer space esque starts it off then an MC with a rap flow talks about getting high then hardcore euphoric lead bangs out and shoots the listener to the moon.

All songs have a bridge section that includes a sample of an old time speech except for Rocket which has a countdown and then informing the passengers that the captain is high as fuck. I recommend buying these songs if you're a hardcore dj, especially Rocket. 

Hop is back!

Hopsin - Knock Madness

The Fiends are Knocking starts up the new release with Hopsin once again talking spit about the pop rappers but does it with all the emotion he puts into his work and also describes a story of a fan who Hopsin had saved their life with his music.

Whose There has a hook that solidifies Hops title as the black Eminem with the delivery of a combination of Eminem and Nate Dogg.

Tears To Snow makes Hopsin show how he is not like other rappers as he remains loyal to his girlfriend and is not interested in riches. 

Rip Your Heart Out features Tech N9ne and Hopsin keeping up with Tech while the funniest line Tech has ever said " The Niggas are coming! The Niggas are comming!"

Gimme That Money is about gold diggers wither they be friends or girlfriends.

Bad Manners is a freestyle.

Old friend reverts back to his friend on meth, mentioned in Chris Dolmeth.

Lunch time cypher brings it back to when MCs would freestyle at the lunchroom and beatbox.

This CD is good and I would say buy on Itunes rather than pay $15 at stores. 

Back to being Basic

Twista Back to the Basics

The intro to the CD is a just a freestyle but whatever because Twista is back long time producer Traxtor!

Ferocious brings is back to the Twista we missed. Traxtor impresses too with some speeding violins that can keep up with Twist.

Beast has Twist putting his spin on today's modern sound. He even puts his twist on the Karate Chop Atlanta southern style flow. The lyrics sound like he's reading out of a college biology text book.

Swagger like a dope boy begins with modern dark hip-hop production. The kind of sound Chief Keef would only dream of doing. A real grimy song about drugs and killing.

Want my love is a slow song on the EP meaning there are 3 slow jams and 3 thug songs. If this is Twista's attempt to fit in with the style then I would say to him just stick to what you know. So say one stream on Spotify is good enough for this EP. 

E-40 Block Brochure Parts 4,5, and 6

E-40 Welcome To The Soil

Part 4:

 Classic Bay Area beat is exactly the thought that comes to my mind as soon as Bamboo comes on. Although the hook is whack and makes no sense. "Rocking in your ear like bamboo".

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has Juicy J make a guest appearance. 

Episodes is a sex song that will have all the dance floors full of people slowly grinding on each other. Puts me in the mood to grab my girlfriend and smash.

Got That Line reminds us that E still has got it and brings it back to Mob Music.

Candlelight is the most gangster song on the album hitting real hard by "Your homies are going to have a a Candlelight if you fuck with me."  

Part 5:

 Plush: Gamed up, luxurious, flossing, a bitch with a big ass, a dice game, this song.

Countdown has 2 Chainz doing his best feature of his career on this song.

Play Too Much has e-40s nephew on the track.

Project Building has a mean sounding guitar sound making it a gritty late night song with Gucci Mane adding to the low down dirtiness of the song.

Champagne is a grooving chopped up song featuring the boss Rick Ross and produced by Maybach Music so that's why it sounds like a dirty south song. I feel like E really gets along with southern artists. French Montana also features on the song but has the weakest verse which is a shame because he normally has such good features. 

Part 6:

Pablo is the second appearance by Gucci and is titled after Pablo Escobar.

Another southern artist, Young Jeezy lends his talent on the song Tonight but only for 8 bars. So far there have been 4 southern artists doing guest spots on these CDs.

Rep my district is a trap beat and gangster lyrics. 

Don't Shoot The Messenger closes all chapters of the Block Brochure and ends with a sample of why rappers should sing more about helping the community than what life in the ghetto is like. This song is about the hardships he went through and where he is now. 

Seriously buy all copies to complete the collection. E-40 makes the most inspiring hustle music. I always want to grind harder whenever I listen to his music.

Grave Digger - Promo

           Grave Digger  For Promotion Only

Ride On - Took too long to start, a reason why you never heard of these guys. Dude get some singing lessons. The bands needs to lean not to rip off Anthrax.

Spy of a Mad - Slow chugging beginning then comes into play like a good thrash song but the singer just ruins everything. Guitar solo lacks because it's more like a start and stop riff.

Shadows of a Moonless Night - The first song that fits in with the vocals.

Fight the Fight - Starts us off with a nice drum intro then leads into a thrash riff that we all know and love. This is definitely the drunken mosh pit song you wanted.

Avoid listening to this promo disc at all costs. 

UGK Banned

This album is the underground tapes that ugk wrote early in their career and now have released them remastered.

              Intro is just a quick little freestyle by Bun B that eases us into the ep and goes straight into a real southern jam called Pregnant Pussy which I'm sure you already know that its about a horny housewife cheating on her babies daddy with the underground kings. Although some of the lyrics get a little disturbing they are also hilarious in there own sick way.

              Pusi Mental  is the instrumental version of Pregnant Pussy.

              Mutha Aint Mine tricked me at because it starts with a girl talking about her being pregnant off the kings so I thought it was going to be a continuation of Pregnant Pussy but it might as well be because its about when a girl tries to claim a man is the baby daddy when both know its not his.

             It also comes with the instrumental version of Mutha Aint Mine.

I would say buy the instrumental tracks to do freestyles with a Texas rap style.

Red Sabbath

Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth

Here comes Danzig's new solo album Deth Red Sabaoth with the first track Hammer of the Gods makes me think Danzig should try adding effects to his voice. Now I know his voice is iconic and we like him becuase he cannot sing at all but his vocals on this track make it really stand out that he's getting tired. 

The Revengeful uses the same guitar riff as Hammer of the Gods but in a different rhythm, actually making the song more enjoyable than the previous song. Oh the mystery of music. 

Black Candy is a gloomy, slow, gothic tune about a mysterious and seductive woman. 

On A Wicked Night has an acoustic-electric guitar and speak of the devil, Danzig actually uses a flanger effect on his voice to make the song sound like Danzig doing his take on modern folk music. Then it transitions into an overly-distorted guitar with Danzig and his effected vocals continuing 

Deth Red Moon is the sort of title track that stands out as the albums lead song and has an amazing chorus and sing along vocals throughout the song.

There are two song as the album titled Pyre of Souls, the first one subtitled Incanticle and the second is titled Seasons of Pain. Incanticle is a choir chanting over a steel string acoustic guitar and some soft percussion. Seasons of Pain is seven minutes long and is basically the metal version of Incanticle.

I had a feeling that the last song on this cd would be a slow song and I was right. The closing track Left  Hand Rise is at a snails pace compared to the outro of Seasons of Pain. 

A lot of slow songs make the cd very doomy but still enjoyable for the dark nights by yourself in your room with a bottle of Ever clear. Also every song on this cd ends with a guitar drone and a whammy bar so they overused a lot of techniques.

MMLP2

Marshal Mathers LP 2

Marshal Mathers LP 2? More like Relapse part 3 becuase so far all 3 albums by Shady were awful.

The opening track "Bad Guy" is a long drawn out 7 minutes and 14 seconds single.  What rap song has been this long ever? Not only is it entirely too long but why make it the first track?

 The song "Survival" is the third single released and the fifth track on the album. Eminem makes sure to use Skylar Grey as much as possible on MMLP2...hope she's getting a big cut.

"Rhyme Or Reason" uses the music from the song "Time of the Season" by Argent and Em even uses the melody of the chorus to sing his words as well. "Berzerk" was the first single released and contains both a Billy Squire sample ("Stroke") and Beastie Boys sample ("Fight For Your Right To Party").  When I heard this on the radio I immediately thought this was a joke but alas it wasn't...to my shock and amazement it was an actual Eminem song.

Thankfully, the single "Rap God" handedly made the album worth giving a listen to. With the fastest rap lines Slim has ever come out with and more punch lines in this song  than Lil Wayne has in his entire catalog, this song has got to be the best song on the album. I got a little laugh out of "Brainless" as it opens up with a sample from Super Bad when the women at the liquor store says "Eminem the rapper."

"Asshole" is YET another song with Skyler singing the hook. While she is a great singer, I don't think she needs to be on half of the album. Also this is also another song on the album when he reuses rap lines we have head from his first Marshal Mathers LP. "The Monster" starts off with Rhianna's beautiful voice stating that shes friends with the monster under her bed. Great lyricism and delivery from both artists here.

"So Far..." begins with yet another classic rock sample. This one being "Life's Been Good To Me So Far" by Joe Walsh. Not only did he used the music melody of the song but he uses the hook as well. "Love Game" is now the fourth song in his album that he has sampled so far....in this song he used "Game of Love" by Wayne Fonta and the Mindbenders. Kendrick Lemar uses the melody to sign his rendition of this classic 1960s song. Nate Ruess from fun. makes quite possibly the second weirdest collaboration Eminem has done since him and Elton John on "Headlights" and makes it even sound like a fun. song with the amount of auto tune Nate uses and the simplistic post-emo drum beat.

If you were able to get the deluxe edition then "Wicked Ways", the last track on the album bringing the grand total to 21 tracks. This song contains an interpolation of "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons sung by X Ambassador. He mentions Violent J from Insane Clown Posse saying the two are similar possibly indicating that Eminem is over the beef officially.

So with all the samples, recycled lyrics, and obscene ammount of tracks, I would say ONE listen is all you need to hear from this album.