Ramirez is a 22 year old MC from San Francisco, California who you may recognize for being the very 1st artist that the $uicideboy$ ever signed to G*59 Record$. Joining his mentors for the G.R.E.Y.G.O.D.S. collab EP & it’s sequel, he would make his full-length debut at the beginning of 2016 off Meet Me Where the River Turns Greyfollowed by The Grey Gorilla & Son of Serpentine. For his 4th studio album however, he’s recruiting Virginia producer Rocci to produce the whole entire thing top to bottom.
After the intro, the first song “Lane Switching”opens with a cloudy yet funky ode to the playas giving middle fingers to the perpetrators whereas “Hunnids” kinda has a Memphis influence to the beat talking about having all the shit that everyone else doesn’t have. “Gold Thangs & Pinky Rangs (Da Hooptie)” featuring Pouya & Shakewell takes the g-funk route for the trio offering fine wine & necklaces instead of money until the moody “Brown Eyes” featuring Rocci finds the pair looking to steal hoes.
“Lavender Lust” after the “Radio” skit is pretty much Rocci singing over a funky instrumental for a minute asking if his romantic interest loves him back just before “Glitter & Gold” gets back on the g-funk vibes to include a dope ass 士セーラームーン reference early during the first verse. “The Fo 5” radiates a bit of a cavernous feel to the beat making way for Ramirez to talk about murder just before “Lead Sled” keeps his head up in the rain with an instrumental harking back to the west coast sound of the 90s.
Moving on from there, “Out da Way” homages the Memphis scene again talking about feeling some type of way as of late while “Tales from da Guttah fuses gangsta rap with trap & dirty south repping G*59 until his body turns grey. After the “Ebony Wood Stock” interlude with a 35 second verse during the backend of it, “Red Dot” featuring Night Lovell ahead of the outro sends off Tha Playa$ Manual with both of them leavin’ people in critical condition by putting bullets through their domes.
The most sonically expansive project that we’ve ever gotten from Ramirez to this day will arguably become the greatest musical opus in the history of the G*59 Record$ discography. Rocci’s production is heavily driven by the g-funk sound that shaped Death Row Records approximately 3 decades ago further drawing inspiration from Memphis rap, trap, hip hop soul, pop rap, phonk, contemporary R&B & the dirty south combined in a smoothly manner with the west coast artist’s gangsta themes.
Score: 4.5/5
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