7 G.E.M.S--Golden Era Music Sciences—Ill
Adrenaline-(2013)
Artist: 7 G.E.M.S.
Album: Golden Era Music
Sciences
Label: Ill Adrenaline
Producers: Purpose
The
underground hip hop scene seems to become a little oversaturated with emcees
trying to make it with the flashy image. It has been widespread throughout the
hip hop genre. Hailing from Lynn Massachusetts, the trio group Tragic Allies
consist of Purpose, Code and Estee Nack teams up with Queensbridge legend
Tragedy Khadafi to form the super group 7 G.E.M.S. Keeping it to its true
essence of street storytelling, they established the critically acclaimed album
Golden Era Music Sciences.
This album caters to the underground
hip hop fan with street hood stories. Purpose the frontrunner of the group
handles the production of the album supplying with dark and moody 90’s feel
boom bap beats that keeps heads nodding. Purpose’s beats gel well with each
artist on the album establishing top notch music compatibility. The singing
melody choruses fits well on tracks like “Without You” and “No Good”. Purpose
is not only nice on the mic but provides the heavy moody production skills to
the test. Guest appearances fit the album like a glove. Roc Marciano blessed
the microphone on “Presume of the Unpredictable”, Shabaam Shadeeq contributes
fiercely on “Foul Thesis” and up and coming artist Relentless holds it down on the
cinematic “Men of Honor”.
There is some hunger intensity
within the lyrics throughout the album. The lyrics on the album put the 90’s nostalgic
fan into heaven. The group paints a picture of the hood on tracks like “No
Good”, “The Anointed” when the group went in over a piano blessed beat with old
school DJ scratches and “Men of Honor”. On “Men of Honor” lyrics will stay
sharper than ginsu knives: Johnny walker black label through my urethra/face
off procedures cooper I got amnesia/shaken like a base head seizure. Or Tragedy
Khadafi’s chilling chorus that sends chill up your spine on “Vantage Point”:
and this is how it went down/shots started busting everybody hit the ground/it
got rowdy at the show outta town/cats started wilding shells flaring from the
crowd. However, the lyrics can be monotonous and repetitive at times which add
no spontaneity. The fans who will feel lost with this album will be the club
party goer and the in between fan that likes a little of everything. Some of
the tracks clear this flaw regarding their tone down delivery which has heads appreciative
of the lyrics instead of constant tough yelling rhymes which is a good thing.
Golden
Era Music Sciences is straightforward that fits to a specific crowd. Production
wise this album is superb and the lyrics are razor sharp. Lyrically, the
subject matter describe the artists which many underground hip hop albums struggle
bringing back to the days where lyrics play an important role as well as the
beat. If you’re a fan of the party or looking for female signing hooks, this album
is definitely not for you; this is more for the Sean Price or a Vinnie Paz fan.
In other words, nostalgia is not so bad after all. The acronym of G.E.M.S says it all about
their music. This album may be considered one of the influential underground
albums in 2013.
Strong
Tracks: “Without You”, “No Good”, “Presume the Unpredictable”, “Men of
Honor”, “Time to Ponder”, “The Anointed”, “Vantage Point”
Average
Tracks: “Foul Thesis”, “Verge of Defeat”
Weak
Tracks: None
Rating: out of
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