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Safari Man
Just a music lover. If it's done with passion and soul (and a strong bassline too), then probably it's some good quality vibrations.
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Ding ding ding! We've got the best rap album of the year, so far!
Interesting enough, we are getting this duos of producers/rappers that is inspiring such good works lately, such is the case of Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats for example, and now, with "Alfredo", Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist gives us a gold.
For this one, I'm gonna start from the ending conclusions because there are things that must be said about this collaboration between the "cocaine rap" king and the white producer from California; it's incredible how The Alchemist can produce such well put-together beats for Freddie to rap on the same vibe and direction. That's great, but even better is the skill of making tracks that sound unique one from another, and each and every one of them has the most sublime sonority to it, going from the grimiest and nasty groove to a more evangelical tune, hitting all the spots in between, with subtle organic sounds almost all the times on the background that make so much difference. In a producing point-of-view, this is one of the best projects this year in the rap genre, even better than Mac Miller "Circles" (even though "Circles" isn't purely a rap album), with the ending of each song serving as and introduction to the next with a defined purpose.
There are so many skinny moments, from the epic opener that was pre-release as a single - "1985" with a guitar so precise on delivering the state of mind that Freddie pretended - and this guitar is sublime and present on more tracks, which proves that more traditional sounds can and should be a part of rap in order to explore corners of the genre yet undiscovered . The second track "Perfect God" as such a dark, hard-hitting groove that Freddie absolutely kills, followed by "Scottie Beam", and then a more easy chilled tune "Look at me", that really didn't hit me as much as the previous one. The next songs have several colabs, such as Benny the Butcher, Tyler, The Creator and Conway The Machine, with all of them participating and filling their spot as they were supposed to do, with various "sonority canvas" being painted.
Until the end of the 35 minutes record, there's another incredible piece of music intitled "Skinny Suge", and once again, such sick strings behind carrying the flow of a melancholic tune. And when "Alfredo" ends, we fell blasted away from what it felt a 3 hour ride throughout an entire spectrum of emotions, although, has some moments that really didn't matched up the unique compositions of some bangers in here, feeling almost like fillers (behind extremely good music nonetheless)
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: between "Skinny Suge" and "God is Perfect", it really was a tough decision to, even more because there were more 4 tracks (at least) with the potential of being the one that's closest to the perfect score. Personally, "Skinny Suge" is such a wonderful mix of beat and percussion, with low key yet obscure synths on the background making this almost depressive vibe... just fabulous.
Interesting enough, we are getting this duos of producers/rappers that is inspiring such good works lately, such is the case of Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats for example, and now, with "Alfredo", Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist gives us a gold.
For this one, I'm gonna start from the ending conclusions because there are things that must be said about this collaboration between the "cocaine rap" king and the white producer from California; it's incredible how The Alchemist can produce such well put-together beats for Freddie to rap on the same vibe and direction. That's great, but even better is the skill of making tracks that sound unique one from another, and each and every one of them has the most sublime sonority to it, going from the grimiest and nasty groove to a more evangelical tune, hitting all the spots in between, with subtle organic sounds almost all the times on the background that make so much difference. In a producing point-of-view, this is one of the best projects this year in the rap genre, even better than Mac Miller "Circles" (even though "Circles" isn't purely a rap album), with the ending of each song serving as and introduction to the next with a defined purpose.
There are so many skinny moments, from the epic opener that was pre-release as a single - "1985" with a guitar so precise on delivering the state of mind that Freddie pretended - and this guitar is sublime and present on more tracks, which proves that more traditional sounds can and should be a part of rap in order to explore corners of the genre yet undiscovered . The second track "Perfect God" as such a dark, hard-hitting groove that Freddie absolutely kills, followed by "Scottie Beam", and then a more easy chilled tune "Look at me", that really didn't hit me as much as the previous one. The next songs have several colabs, such as Benny the Butcher, Tyler, The Creator and Conway The Machine, with all of them participating and filling their spot as they were supposed to do, with various "sonority canvas" being painted.
Until the end of the 35 minutes record, there's another incredible piece of music intitled "Skinny Suge", and once again, such sick strings behind carrying the flow of a melancholic tune. And when "Alfredo" ends, we fell blasted away from what it felt a 3 hour ride throughout an entire spectrum of emotions, although, has some moments that really didn't matched up the unique compositions of some bangers in here, feeling almost like fillers (behind extremely good music nonetheless)
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: between "Skinny Suge" and "God is Perfect", it really was a tough decision to, even more because there were more 4 tracks (at least) with the potential of being the one that's closest to the perfect score. Personally, "Skinny Suge" is such a wonderful mix of beat and percussion, with low key yet obscure synths on the background making this almost depressive vibe... just fabulous.
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