The track “Dangerous” with AboveWaves is a beautiful romance tune, as frontman Ryan Bradley & Tech N9ne are telling their significant others about how deadly their love is & the instrumental is dreamy yet gorgeous.
The song “Happen” is pretty much Tech by himself talking about how the label stays working & not only is the instrumental super funky, but Tech’s signature chopper-style delivery is insane too. The next song “Minimize” with Stevie Stone & Krizz Kaliko is a jab at all the shit-talkers & the production is absolutely HAUNTING! The track “Let’s Go” with Big Scoob & Darrein Safron spits that g shit over a hard hitting instrumental, but Darrein’s rapper verse isn’t as obnoxious like his usual singing voice that’s blatantly bitten off of Chris Brown. Here, Tech teams up with JL alongside Strange Music’s 2 newest signees Jay Trilogy & Joey Cool to compare their flows to cocaine over a creepy trap beat. The album opens with “Cold Piece of Work”, in which a 30 second snippet of closed out Dominion. And while that is being repeated on this new Collabos album here, I think Strange Music is one of the best indie hip hop labels of all-time & that’s why I’m still giving it a shot. However, I found the first one of the year Dominion that dropped back in early April to be average at best due to feeling like his Strangeulation duology due to the entire Strange Music roster being the sole features & having the label’s in-house producer Seven produce in it’s entirety. This one screams “fans only” like it was bloody murder, and you can take that as a recommendation if a good portion of your CD collection - especially around the “T”s - is colored blood red.When it was announced in January that indie hip hop icon Tech N9ne was releasing 2 Collabos albums this year & his next solo album being in 2018, I didn’t really mind it at all. The mood is like a demon dance party with aggression, hedonism, and shock value all turned up to 11, and while the concept might seem a ball and chain to newcomers, returning fans will enjoy the clever way some of their favorite Strange artists are introduced.
Names like Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Jay Rock, and others familiar to those who venture into Strange’s sliver of the underground fill the guest list, while production comes from Seven, Jomeezius the Genius, ¡Mayday!, and other house favorites. Still, this journey through the man’s past is mostly about the friends he’s made and then signed to his Strange Music label. They’re generally less biographical too, which is no surprise as so many outside voices are butting in, but Welcome to Strangeland looks to blend the two worlds as Tech’s fourth Collabos release takes on the extra burden of being conceptual. If you want to keep up with the prolific Tech N9ne (and you’re quite behind already), know that his regular albums are like tell-all memoirs from Hades while his Collabos releases (and his mixtapes, EPs, and whatnots) are more like everyday horror novels, more exciting without leaving such a lasting impression.
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