Roads Art and Yasin------End of the Road

Roads Art and Yasin-End of the Road--(2013)

Artist: Roads Art and Yasin  

Album: End of the Road

Label: Independent           

Producers: Roads Art  

The dynamic duo from New Jersey of Roads Art and Yasin has been putting out records consistently. Producer Roads Art name has been slowly making noise making beats for Capone from the legendary group Capone and Noreaga and Raekwon da Chef. Yasin subject matter relates to the average hip hop listener that sticks to you like glue. With LP’s “The Rocky Road” and “The Road To Success” receiving great reviews the musical chemistry between them gel perfectly. The New Jersey native duo returns with their latest opus “End Of The Road” with the same formula: Yasin on the microphone and Roads Art behind the boards.

            The tracks on the album get you to a feel of what the duo is all about. Roads Art provides a variety of beats that fits Yasin’s lyrical cadence. The Intro provides a smooth horns beat in the background as it leads to the head nodding “You Just Talking” when Yasin exposes the opposition which is self-explanatory. The next track “Price On Your Head” is a blow for blow lyrical track where Yasin teams up with Shaolin’s finest Raekwon over the dope piano infused Roads Art production; this is where Yasin shines like a gem: enemies wanna eat/big macs, get wrecks put cheese on the beef/hood evening night of the creeps/and they can’t stop, won’t stop till you deceased. Roads Art production shines well on tracks involving the singing component samples such as “Let Me In”, “B Together”, “What She Told Me” and the soulful track featuring Drea on “What You Thought”. This doesn’t stop there as the variety of beats elicits different emotions. The rough hard hats and kicks from tracks like “Jurassic Park”, “Intermission/True Story” where Yasin brings out the aggression. Yasin spits abstract subject matter that is relatable on “B Together” and “What She Told Me” where he raps about the females. Yasin spits a memory lane nostalgic theme on “Real Shit” about the street life: work go to school, baby try to learn/graduated still down to flip a tax return/my old heads, tell you what life means/summertime real niggas get the kids ice cream.

What you see is what you get and if it’s not broken, don’t fix it are the themes of a cohesive project. This explains End of the Road where Yasin puts in the lyrical flow into contextualization while Roads Art provides the heavy hitting production. This is an album that brings relatable subject matter. Yasin spits the bars that make you think which other artists either struggle to do or diversify. The guest appearances assisted from Raekwon, Capone and Drea added the flavor that strengthens the project further. The emcee/producer duo projects are starting to become popularize but they are not new to this; they have been doing this for a long time. We will hear more projects from the New Jersey native duo as this a strong gem project. End of the Road built a musical journey with a starting point until the end. With solid structure, the average listener still wants to continue the road, not end it with a solid album like this.

         Strong Tracks: “Intro/You Just Talking”, “Price on Your Head”, “Jurassic Park”, “B Together”, “We Doing Us”, “What She Told Me”, “Gods and Devils”, “Real Shit”, “I Did It”

               Rating: out of

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