Initially there seems to be a bit too much machismo and muscle on Reef The Lost Cauze’s latest album ‘Fight Music’, which comes with blockbusting production from Guns-N-Butter. But then the Philadelphia based rapper hasn’t called his latest album ‘Fight Music’ for nothing. As it see’s Reef introduce himself him in a loud, no nonsense, as it says on the label, way.
As Reef says on ‘OPG Theme’, ‘this is rap music, why are you trying to be poetic and shit.’ Plus with track titles such as ‘I’m A G’, ‘Trigger Talk’, and ‘Bosses’ coming in thick, fast, hard, and loud and one after the other, there’s definitely no pussyfooting around from Reef, with Guns-N-Butter’s blasting production in swinging 3D style particularly on the latter track ‘Bosses.’ So to start of with ‘Fight Music’ is like a sawn of shot gun and karate kick to the head, and it doesn’t fail to entertain either.
But then a more sinister and dare I say it a more suicidal tone falls over the centre part of the album particularly on the 2 tracks, the politically toned ‘Get Me Outta Here’ where Reef gives us details of a ‘city where pleasure is pain, some get it some give it.’ And that ‘I don’t wanna live I don’t wanna die, they wanna clip my wing, I just wanna fly’ which gives a conspiratorial edge to the claustrophobic track.
There’s also ‘Suicide Slang’ which is slightly hallucinatory with a violent edge to it. Both of these tracks hint at there being something more to Reef The Lost Cauze than just the muscle and ‘fighting’ which makes you listen to ‘Fight Music’ in a different light the second time around, and listen to what he’s actually saying. Of course as Reef points out you don’t have to be poetic and shit or a ‘conscious’ rapper to have a point of view or to want to get a point across.
But then there’s the old skool scratchy rap off of ‘Three Greats’, which also features US rap legends Kool G Rap and R.A the Rugged Man. Also ‘Sun’ is a surprising chilled out finale to the album.
‘Fight Music’ then starts of as a large and lively party and ends with something to say, and it might be Reef’s first shot at the big time in the process possibly.
The album has a mainstream hip-hop feel to it as it aims to take over the space occupied by the likes of 50 Cent and The Game. But still having something to say other than how ‘gangsta’ they are. Indeed Reef’s aforementioned track ‘I’m A G’ makes a mockery of that. Maybe the production will be even bigger next time round.
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