Hailing from Harlem, Vordul Mega and Vast Aire drop this tight hip-hop album. It's abstract, it's intelligent. Both MCs are amazing; they have great flow, and absolutely stellar lyrics. Their diction is Mega Vast, and they create some rather interesting, vivid imagery ("Yo it wasn't even like that / I wanted my cardiovascular to fight back" -- The F-Word). The topics covered on the album are pretty unconventional. Well, actually, not really. Relationships, poverty, New York life, self-superiority, etc. But they describe each topic with such incredible and creative lyricism ("You were a stillborn baby / your mother didn't want you but you were still born" -- Iron Galaxy). Sometimes, I felt that some of the lyrics made no sense, but it took me multiple listens through this album to see what was going on. This is abstract material.El-P's beats are really cool. They're relatively slow, atmospheric, hazy, and thick. He throws in some bizarre samples, some that sound like 8-bit audio pieces.
It does have a running time of around an hour and 15 minutes, but that's not so much of a problem for me since the lyrics are truly captivating.
Ill shit. Check it.
Listen to: Iron Galaxy, Raspberry Fields, Vein, The F-Word, Painkillers, Pigeon
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