Access Immortal--------The New Great

Access Immortal-The New Great-----(2014)

Artist: Access Immortal

Album: The New Great

Label: Independent

Producer: DJ Ruckspin, Relentless, Big D, The Cratez, others

Brooklyn’s Access Immortal put in work consistently with his hard spitting lyrics that makes your head spin. The length of Access’s resume represents hip hop to its purest form. With his groundbreaking mixtape Last Summer in Brooklyn 2 was a classic underground project that has a diversity raw hip hop beats with standout tracks that illuminates the theme of the album. Now Access Immortal emerges with a new project to open 2014; can he live up to the title The New Great.

            As you know, Access shows confidence when stepping to the microphone and he has no problem stepping to the plate. After the well blessed intro, the title track is a bouncy cocky track that brings light to Access lyrics as DJ Ruckspin delivers the perfect beat that matches the title. Not only Access delivers lyrically, his storytelling tracks illuminate the project like a gem. The commentary view to Around Town narrates the life of Brooklyn through Access Immortal’s lens with the perfectly laced Smif N Wessun drop under The Cratez production: Summertime madness, guns start blasting/little ni**as wiling the f*ck out street assassins. That’s how you start an album with a gritty picture straight impeccable. High energy tracks like Early In The Morning paints his narrative of his life while the cocky influenced standout track Take My Spot dares the average person to challenge Access in a clever way. The well balanced track Black Venom reminiscence the Everybody Loves the Sunshine feeling as Access gets an assist from Jersey’s spitter Jukstapose which makes a suitable guest appearance. The Noyz Beatmaker track Bout that Life executes the Friday inspired vision to Access rhyming delivery with a self-explanatory chorus.

            Moods switch on the hard head nodding track Base in the Trap House placing a solid drum pattern with Access and Fess bodied the track while The Rock Star Way switches in the opposite direction. Spaced Out and trio track The Way featuring QB’s Tragedy Khadafi and Jersey’s Jukstapose are good filler tracks that are quite listenable. Sunshine in the Rain depicts the strength of the misrepresentation of the hood where his wordplay sticks to your ribs like soul food with the soulful songstress Dante that brings light to the track. An old school digging in the crates vibe to Pump Up The Volume with a cool simple bassline placing Access in his own zone: too poetic if you follow others/we might be the same color but we not brothers/getting close to the edge and I feel smothered/thinking of my opposition and I thought f”**k em. The last track is the gangsta influenced track Mariana Trench hearing the Menace to Society and Juice drops that fits the track.

            The New Great lives up to its title and puts the listener into another perspective. The minor issue with this album is some of the songs supersede the others. Lyrically, Access continues to be one of the emcees that stand on his own with impeccable wordplay; a trait that many artists can’t possess. This makes The New Great strong in which his solo tracks and Black Venom place him on a high pedestal. With the sheer of confidence, some will say bravado or chutzpah, it’s apparent that Access Immortal’s lyrical cadence and emcee presence is the theme to the album which makes sense.

            Strong Tracks: “The New Great”, “Take My Spot”,” Around Town”, “Black Venom”, “Pump Up The Volume”, “Early In The Morning”, “Sunshine In The Rain”, “Mariana Trench”

            Rating:out of

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