Today, I decided to review another Alchemist project. The underground hip hop producer has done several albums recently with some pretty great artists, resulting in some great collaborations. This time, he's working with hip-hop veteran Prodigy for a full length album titled Albert Einstein. Most known for his work in the 90's with Mobb Deep, he has been pretty quiet recently. Will Prodigy's career be revamped from a project with The Alchemist?
The first song, LMDKV, was pretty dope. The beat featured some high-pitched piano keys and Prodigy sounds really sick, flowing precisely here. I had no complaints with this, it was just dope. The second track, Give Em Hell, was just incredible, and I was really impressed with it. The beat was so dope and smooth as hell, and Prodigy was showing some serious skill on the mic. The hook was also pretty good. Once again, no complaints. The next instrumental on the song Stay Dope, was a lot slower compared to the first two. It came off a little boring at first, but was actually very layered and interesting. I didn't like Prodigy as much on this one, though. At this point in the project, The Alchemist is definitely outshining him. Curb Ya Dog was the next one, and the beat on this track was so detailed. There were so many things going on, but Alchemist put it all together in such a dope way. Prodigy's flow was really nice on this as well. I enjoyed this song overall.
The first feature track was Death Sentence with Roc Marciano. Another ridiculous beat here, as Alchemist supplied a beat perfect for Prodigy's style. Prodigy sounded great on this, and the hook was really good. Roc Marciano had a really sick verse here, as his lyricism was on point and he rode the beat a little nicer than Prodigy. This song was so sick overall. Skipping around to more feature tracks, Y.N.T. was a pretty good song as well. The beat was so smooth and sounded really polished. Domo Genesis of Odd Future comes in with a nice, introspective verse. His flow was pretty solid as well, as he has gone over Alchemist production many times before. Prodigy had another good verse, but I wasn't feeling his flow as much. This song was good, but it just felt like something was missing, and I have no idea what it is. R.I.P was a collaboration with some classic 90's rappers, Havoc and Raekwon. Alchemist suppiled a golden era beat, but with a modern twist on it. I liked it a lot. Havoc had an okay verse, and I was a little disappointed with him. It was not terrible, though. Raekwon was pretty good here, and I think he had the best verse. The One featuring Action Bronson had another awesome beat, which I think took all the spotlight on the track, as it was one of my favorites on the album. Bronson came in and probably had the best guest verse on the album. He just sounds fantastic over this production.
Getting into more solo tracks, Bear Meat had some very interesting production, and Prodigy's flow was a little better than usual. Also, the hook was an improvement over other hooks on the album I was really feeling the whole vibe of this one, and it was pretty good. Dough Pildin was yet another ridiculous beat, which Prodigy sounded pretty solid on. Not much else to say about this one, though. It was a little boring. Same story with the next one, Confessions. An awesome beat, decent Prodigy verses, but nothing else. I think at this point, Prodigy is starting to sound repetitive to me. Bible Paper was a nice change of pace, with Alchemist spitting his own verse, which actually didn't go over to badly. The beat on this one was also spectacular. Unfortunately, I have not much else to say with the last few tracks, as they all had dope beats, but Prodigy didn't change up much of anything. This album definitely didn't finish strong, in my opinion.
ALBERT EINSTEIN WRAP UP
+Every single beat was fantastic, some of the best production of the year
+Pretty good features
+Prodigy's voice and delivery sounded fine
-Didn't finish well with some boring tracks
-Prodigy didn't really change anything up with his rapping style
-Not the best lyrics
Best: Death Sentence, Give Em Hell, The One
Worst: Breeze
Prodigy- Albert Einstein
7.7/10
No comments:
Post a Comment