After checking, I was pleased to see it can still be had for $47, but I figure it’s limited restocks will sell out very soon.įortunately, I just swapped my Pharcyde LP I was supposed to get this month in June for Keef while you can still get a brand new copy with VMP insurance from VMP.
I was horrified, since I’ve wanted this album basically since I’ve collected records and assumed it was sold out.
Difficult to do well but it turned out excellently I think.Īs for sound, Don’t know yet! I’ll update when my version comes, but I missed this one at drop. It’s a sort of hazy marbling with almost a tinge of transparency that gives it a look really a bit like smoke. This one, alongside “So Much Fun” seems to have great coloring. I don’t purchase anything except first or rare colored/alternate art specialty pressings I need in the collection so I’ve never been too let down by the awful colors. VMP has the ugliest colors for records far too often, but thank god when they do a first pressing of a work it’s usually not on a hideous color scheme like the travesties that happened with Enter the Wu, Ironman, and a few others. This is actually the first pressing ever on a sort of smoky grey wax. Sounded like inspiration itself when I was hitting up Pawn shops to sell random shit and scraping together money for the cords for my music gear. Restocking an online store hardly has the sort of experience required to really pump you up, and this album is kinda out of place. Obviously depending on the nature of the business, it’s not always the best. I find it to be the absolute best soundtrack you can have to making money and getting on your grind.
I put this album on when I get up to do a lot in the morning or on Business trips. The sounds of the album are best described as thunderstorm made into night rager anthems. This is really where high tempo gangster music in my opinion hit it off. The beats are really what shines on this, and Sosa’s sparkly cadence and relaxed yet frenetic flow start any party out for real.
It’s just time to feel the rhythm of life. Lyrics are often as simple as “Bitch I’m Cooler than a Cooler” or “Tats all on my body don’t make me catch a body”, but Keef has a constant, driving flow of camaraderie, cash flow, and fast living that can make even the hardest Wu Tang old head bust a groove and forget he isn’t lyrically dense. Of course it goes without saying Keef pioneered the drill sound to a more mainstream audience. Love Sosa, Hallelujah, Hate Bein’ Sober, and Don’t Like are in my view particularly influential to our modern gangsta rap and trap sound. But who the hell cares? Every track is fantastic, but you know an album is one of the best ever when almost half the tracks are among your picks for “Essential Hip Hop Tracks”. This is definitely in my top 3 favorite rap albums if not my favorite, and top 10 albums of all time, just because it is SO DAMN HARD.
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