Who, Feast, Mad Men, Catch Us, A Gentleman’s Bet, Team
Grizzly II, HCMF, Heavyweights.
The Company We Keep is littered with Dela, Done One, Ruste
Juxx, Judgement, Joey Baggs, Blaze Rock,
and Grey Fox.
After listening to this EP about 7 times in the last 2 days,
I decided that the words I needed to formulate, scratch that….the words I
needed weren’t going to come to me easily. Heavy hitters featured on almost
every track this shit is the 602’s rawest underground talent throwing their 2
cents at your face. An old friend once told
me he worked in the belly of the beast; he must have been talking about Gods
and Monsters. Streets and The Ginger are
the beast.
I struggled, how I would describe these boys, these boys who
have become men over the years. The only thing I can come up with, they are the
modern day code talkers. Translating rhymes and words into something more than
music with some beats behind it, these aren’t the old school pro-tools beats I
messed with in school 15 years ago; these beats come from another planet.
When I listen to G N M I have to pull out my Dangerdoom,
Proof, Grimm, and Old School Eminem (circa 1997) I close my eyes and I’m drug
through the hot sweaty nights of downtown Phoenix, destination 1145 E
Roosevelt, crowds getting restless, hands shaking, hugs being tossed, Streets
and The Ginger on the porch. The music starts. The crowd moves as one. We are
the snakes they are the charmers. They are the puppet masters we are the
puppets.
Nas, I suggest you get your daughters ready, Slaughterhouse
5 I suggest you make room for these Gods and Monsters. The mistress you thought
was hip hop, well let’s just say she upped her game and like preachers at the
podium you will feel the vibrations through your bones listening to these men.
I will be your judge, I will be your jury, I will not be
your executioner. I will put these words on paper and let the crowd decide. I
find you guilty of taking the souls of the lost who wander the streets slicing
their throats from ear to ear and letting the beats flow like blood from their
veins. Condemned to roam the earth hip hop whispering in your ear, your beats
stalking the shadows.
The Company We Keep
The Second Coming
**I would like to thank Damien Streets, Brent William, Sarai Phi and all you other muggs for allowing me to be a part of your family. The Pics are from Sarai Phi from the 08/11/2012 FREEP party of The Company We Keep at Push Art Gallery in downtown Phoenix.
