This is the 3rd extended play from Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom emcee Booda French. Aside from being a member of the Old Children, he would go on to drop 3 full-lengths & a couple EPs throughout the span of a decade plus including the 2016 debut Awesome is Everyday or the sophomore effort 6am Coffee Club a year later & The Loser’s Victory Lap. I should also mention Ventolin & Club 27 Reservations respectively preceding it all, hitting us with some Allotment Freestyles.
The November 2023 session track opens with an angelic boom bap instrumental talking about getting better with the lessons learned through aging whereas the December 2023 session track produced by King Kashmere gets in his hardcore vibe over a funky beat. The March 2024 session track hooks up a lo-fi sample courtesy of Cuth trying increase his revenue until the November 2024 session track sends it off floating over a jazzy Alecs DeLarge beat.
With all respect to both of Allotment Freestyles’ predecessors that came out during my adolescence, Booda French has come a long way since & this 10 minute collection of ideas stemming across an entire 12 months delivered off-top validates those claims. Debatably his strongest EP yet makes me hope we get an entire LP of production at this level of consistency & outside the context of the year-long concept, the right guest appearances rippin’ microphones with him wouldn’t hurt.
Score: 4/5
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