This is the 9th mixtape of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Commander, producer and political activist Ghais Guevara. Starting with the original nickname of Jaja00 in 2019, he released a total of 8 mixtapes and three EPSs during that time until he signed with Fat Postum Records last fall. My full-length studio debut, Goyard ibn, said I was impressed and was synced at the start of Kendrick Lamar’s historic Super Bowl Lix Lix Heftime Show. I’m pretty sure Ghais himself has beef with me since I got dragged into a tweet he made a month ago regarding xQc using AI to review Playboi Carti’s new album MUSIC when I’ve repeatedly said that’s not the case & RJ Payne’s manager Coach Kandaka backing me up on it, yet I’m still covering The Other 2/5ths or The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby simply because I still appreciate his craft as much as I did when I got into him back in January.
…and everything in it” features teller bank. “CIA PSYOP” watches him growing up in the trenches.
We have Ghais warning the people around to not make him get hostile during “Eazy-E Tu Mama Tambien” & right after the “Grifterlude”, he samples “Nina + the Field of Cops” by Cameron Winter during the lead single “Nina Narcissist” abstractly talking about a woman named Nina & judging her now as a result of her real life being a drill. “ Warriorraverpoet” has been popping up ecstasy and his brain since using it, but then using it, but then the “Da 5 Spot” features Yoko McThuggin’s “Yoko McThuggin” jazz and traps that require space to be found in Tryna.
“Every Tour is My Gatsby Party” is my least favorite single of the three. Faro & Wahid’s “Egosurfing, Soul Searching” emanates the tape, and all three of them thank them for not grabbing self-destruction to cause harm to mothers, brothers, cousins and women.
If this man himself has read this article, I hope he knows that I have not been ill with anyone of him and wish him all the sustained success. As far as a collection of tracks recorded from last spring when he turned his album into Fat Possum up to present day, The Other 2/5ths or The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby marks the potential beginning of the end of Ghais’ music career starkly conveying the fact that we all have to leave the nest to adapt at some point in our lives because the debilitation can be exorcised or adorned through its voices tempered by our expression instead of undoing it.
Score: 9/10
