Harlem, New York Commander UFO FEV, surprises his 12th studio LP. Coming up a little over a decade ago off his full-length debug Around My Way, it wasn’t until 2020 when he saw his biggest year yet by dropping not 1 but 3 well received projects: the Statik Selektah-produced sophomore effort Fresh Air along with the Termanology-produced debug EP From El Barrio, With Love & the Big Ghost Ltd.-produced 3rd album The Ghost of Albizu. Then it all goes with Magnum Opus, and the mystery produced by Dalí’s Vanderslice and 4 EP: Supreme, Prayer, Weeds and Music, E Pluribus unum, sunsets in the slums, and of course the blood that Finns produce on their bills. I even like the strap and pyramid scheme made by Fredro Starr, although Albizu 2: Albizu’s ghost of revenge has raised expectations on paper.
“The Road to Redemption” gets the ball on the ghost of the Albisu sequel, talking about spending all the money and turning it back twice because he is a liar, but Jose Santiago hook, performs in Spanish, while “High and Powerful” embraces a sample of the banging boom times until he speaks now. The My People cycle introduces some vocals about Puerto Ricans wanting freedom because he himself possesses Puerto Rican origins, and the “Scarlet Fever” at the speed of the red inf ensures that they have not allowed prisoners to brag about no one can have a chance on them.
Jose Santiago is back and killing it, killing 1 time with the choir, “Work harder, play harder” to blend rap rock and prosperity, except that he sang in English this time, just to stand out from his muscles before “Puerto Rican Rock” which left the old-fashioned rappers lying on their backs and opening up their own privates on their backs for each other to appreciate by the Milkas Nice, which is his nice Nice. Jazz’s “cultural cypher” brings us all the way back to the South Bronx, and hip-hop all begins to dabble in “vengaza” and talks about the concept of revenge in dust.
Lil D saves my personal favorite guest verse of the 2 during the boom bap & chipmunk soul fusion “Benicio” to kick off The Ghost of Albizu 2: Albizu’s Revenge’s last 6 minutes or so assuring that the plug knows his face & he’s been simply running in place as of late prior to “The Cornerstone” finishing up the album with 1 final jazzy boom bap joint about being emotionally generated rather than AI generated & a hook homaging the “cream (cash dominates everything around me)” of the all-powerful Wu-Tang family.
It’s an upcoming Halloween, an upcoming Halloween, and it’s crazy since I first heard the ghost of Albizu and caught up with the fresh air of El Barrio and the ghost of El Barrio. And I know that some people don’t feel the pyramid scheme as Dali’s mystery, but most people would prefer Albizu 2: The Ghost of Albizu: The Revenge of Albizu, as it continues the stubborn theme/conscious theme and jazz Boom Bap sounds that occasionally expand Rap & Chipmunk Soul’s predecessors.
Score: 9/10
