Rakim was very happy to feel one of the most devastating rhymes of the year so far, obviously the work of Kendrick Lamar: “Let's Be Clear, hip hop Daed Again / Half of My Profits May Go To Rakim”. The old school rapper, however, is not the only one: all the fans of the brothers Thornton, Aka Pusha T and Malice, Aka Clipse, are also happy, who have returned with an exceptional album from every point of view, Let God sort em out16 years since the last Til the Casket Drops (and the consequent dissolution of the duo).
Among the guests of the album, Kendrick stands out, who in Chains & Whips It unleashes his fatal wrath on the system that makes us slaves of money, but when, in fact, “Beat The System with Chains and Whips” says there is the double allusion: chains and whisk in the Slang can also mean necklaces and machines. PS: Lenny Kravitz is playing the guitar in the piece.
And to think that Kendrick at the beginning wanted to rap even on the sinuous I know be itwhich uses the sample of an old Saudi piece by Talal Maddah. Then, however, all taken by the processing of his album Gnxhe managed to write “only” the verse of Chains. Among other things, precisely among the bars of I know be itPusha launches poison on Travis Scott, who had pissed him off a lot when in 2023 he had made a version of the single listened to Pusha and Pharrell Meltdown who omitted the verse in which Drake takes his pine culo. Then the piece came out complete with verse and from there we say it does not run good blood.
However, we remain from the side of Williams, which moreover in I know be itit is right to pay attention to it, contrasts the disgusting anti-Islamist wave that is investing the western world. Will Paris Cosmopolitan have done to him well? Certainly the guy has always pushes the future, trying to sign beat and instrumental as incredapable as possible, by the alien minimalism of All Things Considered (where even robotic sings) to the cinema Ebitdafrom the sghembo and naked beat of Inglorous bastards to the bombed steroids with omnidirectional low frequency of I know to fare ahead.
In any case, “Skateboard P” Williams above all the merit of this great reunion goes to Pharrell. The creative director of Louis Vuitton remembered also one of the greatest producers of the new millennium, so he made the sumptuous recording studies install in the headquarters of the Parisian fashion house and invited us some people to record together with the two brothers that he himself discovered and produced first, in the remote 90s.
Among these friends there is also a Tyler, The Creator in very form (Pover), always ready to Zompare from a topic like his new Ferrari F40 but also “The Curso of the Zeros”, that is, the curse of the zeros, of the greed. It seems in fact a very recurring theme, almost as a Christian senses after a lifetime, that of the clips, which passed to passed off (and consume) baroque quantities of cocaine. From this plague then Malice, a younger and less famous brother of Pusha T, had come out in a way a little to Paolo Brosio: pitally changing the name in No Malice and giving himself to Christian rap.
Over time, many of these religious corners have been changed, which also facilitated the reunion. Still, the disc is still called as a biblical step taken from the second letter to Timoteo. However, all the madness that has manifested itself in the big game of American rap in recent years, by Kanye that goes crazy and becomes a Nazi, Drake who makes the figure of the pacifier by putting himself against K-doot Lamar, or even just the fact that fashion is “stealing” precious names to the scene, suggests a different reading of the entire sense of Let God sort em out.
It is as if in an elimination game, such as the Béziers massacre of 1209 where one of the commanders of the crusade pronounced the famous phrase “kill them all, God recognizes his”, here the rap, that is, the God of whom ours are the prophets, in the end he chose those worthy of eternal salvation. For all the others, there are no rosy prospects.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
