Genre: Hip Hop
Rating: 5/5
If you’ve read anything that claims this is anything less than the genius… that you’ll hear a better hip hop album from 2021… anything that’s not gushing praise… consider yourself lucky that you came here for the truth.
I was going to do a double review with Hitler Wears Hermes VIII: Sincerely, Adolf (2021) but Side B is so good I decided I must tackle this first. The End how You start intro cools with kool Isaac Hayes vibe backdrop while Westside Gunn gets philosophical:
humans are judged by their outcomes
The results determine the future
Lowkey it ain’t no such thing as the end
The end is just a new start, you start how you finish
So here goes a mystery
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do
Ha, dough, nigga, dough
Dough say it twice, twice
Music is all about dough, but you know
Seven heaven on one throne equals eight, you know
Hell on Earth, Pt. 2 has a great beat and sonic backdrop with a full surreal stop for the:
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
We’re going to see the king, ah, ah, ah
-sampling Soon and Very Soon
Conway comes in verse three bringing David Banner flashbacks:
Cause if it take too long to find you, then we visitin’ your mama, nigga (Hahahaha)
Yeah, I know them killers up in Dallas
Street nigga for real, boy, my trigger finger callused
Free Kutter rests on a sample of what the best I can figure is Milt Jackson playing Thelonious Monk’s ‘Round Midnight. I’m not so sure about how Kutter ended up incarcerated but I dug this up looking for 411
Forest Lawn contains a wickedly contagious hook about the local cemetery in Buffalo
Armani Caesar also adds some texture with a female voice on that track
goddamn
The Fly who couldn’t Fly straight brings Tyler, The Creator who sounds like he used to on Goblin. In other words dope as fuck. I wish rappers never matured.
Poet Keisha Plum
closes it out:
Plum poison he’ll be sippin’
Destroy his life, complete the mission
Can only fuck him if he’s a killer
Or the name of his favorite tape start with Hitler
hmu
Warmth Highest 