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Bands won’t stop—Video directed by Dylan O’Donovan. This was the first song that I checked out from the new album and right off, I was tuned in. The visual overload of imagery that is featured in this video is exactly the type I shit I go crazy for. The contrast between the vivid color is only matched by the haunting sounds of a piano melody, that reminds me of a lonely forest at night. Baby E comes in and gets to work. As the music plays, the viewer is flooded with scenes that are pleasing to my eyes. The city at night, beautiful ladies, and the artists doing what they do best, drop lines that I can literally relax to. This is a song that you put on after a long day of doing what ever the fuck it is you do. The rolling tray should come out for this one, in my own opinion. Baby E has a flow that is just the right speed. The delivery is carried out with the perfect amount of force needed. There is nothing to fight here and the track feels right….like the first big rush of a balloon full of nitrous. People that know, know. Everything breaks for the better, there is nothing but sweet surrender to the music. Ouija enters the track, like slipping into a house through an unlocked window. The plane has landed, and there is no turbulence. I dig the guest appearance of the Faygo and appreciate the symbolism, especially being an old school Psychopathic Records fan myself. The track ends as dope as it showed up. I won’t lie, I ran it back like six times when I first watched this video. In my book, anything that can be repeated (or beyond) after just messing with it, is top shelf.

Like Yuh– Ouija gets right to work from the start before passing it to Baby E. I dig the beats and it reminds me of the end of a long night after the strip club. Almost too tired to drive, but feeling good and relaxed. “Don’t start no shit, won’t be no shit” is a great line that serves as a warning and good advice. Baby E and Ouija work together like weed and mushrooms.

(I don’t like life) Anymore-Drugs, pushing the limits, crossing the lines, demons come knocking for their due. This is a pain anthem track, the kind of song that reminds the user of past nightmares and bad places to post up. Like a noisy hallway in the psych ward, or a room full of vomiting addicts in rehab, and the desperation of getting fucked up for days and weeks at a time. Barely alive, more like a ghost….I feel this track. It’s dark but so what, most of life can be….and actually is for too many of us. If a song could have the thousand yard stare, this would have it. Eyes that have seen too much. Ears that have heard too much. Bodies that have ingested too much. In my world, this song is dope.

Different mindset-This is a solid track. After the first three songs, it fits well…like a gold chain with some dope kicks and a Kangol. This is a head nodder and is the kind of song you listen to in your car when your getting high in a parking lot.

For good-“Hold my breath and sleep for good” “I don’t care if you leave or stay, you never gave a fuck about me anyway” “Doing drugs just to try and fade away” “I’ve got to say goodbye, I’ve got a date to die” “I can hold my breath and just sleep for good”. These types of phrases are spoken in a language that I respond to and understand greatly. There are thousands of different ways to talk about what Baby E and Ouija are talking about, and not all of them are what I would consider correct. When I hear these two drop lines like the ones I have highlighted, I hear authenticity. People going through hard times have done drugs and got shit faced to touch oblivion, hell I’ve been there more times than I care to admit here. The point is again, the right tone is struck, the lyrics hit home, and I don’t want the song to end.

One for me-Interesting guitar…this is a jam that is fine. It’s just not really for me. The quality and sound is there, I’m just not into this song as much as the others. I tend to lean a little too far into the dark end of things and that’s the kind of shit that I really respond to. Breakups, makeups, mixed messages from a lover, its all cool, just not my brand of forty is all.

Overnight-Baby E and Ouija keep on grinding, and the album pushes on towards the inevitable end. Baby E reflects on some childhood rain storms, waiting on a better day. The beats are good, no complaints here.

 It be like that sometimes-Lofty dope high music, like I’ve been smoking an ounce of Indica before 10:00am, drowning in a case of RSO Kool-Aid by 3pm. Tray of brownies for dinner. A few caps to the head, and 20lb tank of nitrous by midnight….Drifting throughout the day, high as fuck….like a ghost in the house. The only person on earth.

Mitosis-They picked back up on that beat that I dig. That dark vibe, with trouble on the horizon, like a burning black sun, and it cries out that nothing good is coming for you…..Living fast…..I can’t drink slow…..up for five days…..dope and razor blades. I drink fast, can’t sit still………I lean into shit like this. Troubled waters floating in….

Got Somebody-The albums got to end somewhere. I hear a faint taste of old Bone Thugs in this one (just a little bit). I like hearing Rehab getting shouted out. I did twenty seven trips over the course of about seven years, and that whole scene will always be with me. You’ve either been there or you haven’t. If you haven’t that’s a good thing….but for those that have….this resonates for right or wrong.

 

Well, I guess that’s about all I have for this ROX-TV review. Keep checking back in for new music reviews whenever you can. We have a lot of great content planned for 2021. Oh yeah I almost forgot, the rating for this album on the Mike Shepard scale…..

Four broken forty bottles out of four (that’s the best you can get)

 

Signing Off,

 

Mike Shepard

ROX-TV Head Writer

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