Been on a streak of putting some 4.5s to 5s. This album is the best candidate. This record leaves me breathless. Dark jazz, tribal, industrial noise, and boom bap all come together for the most unique sound of a hip hop album I?ve ever heard. Billy Woods and Moor Mothers chemistry are unparalleled. (Wu-Tang who?) The lyricism and imagery of ancient secrets, hidden tribes, apocalyptic hell scapes, and mythology with a modern twist is genius. Images are painted of caravans trudging through dunes, savages at the doors of royalty, throwing coins, lynches swinging, enslaved men searching for their creator, Congolese hands in gift bags, watching the cleansing teeth of fire, prying jewelry off dead pharaohs from tombs and so much more. It?s a masterpiece. . 10/10
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