Lav's Music Corner

Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim are a pair of prolific New York rappers who have managed to stand out in the already extremely prolific world of underground hip hop. On top of their own solo material they dropped a pair of collaborative tapes last year the first of which was the predecessor in the Wolf On Wall St.  series and the second of which was a tribute to one of hip hops favorite lyrical subjects, basketball. Review By Lav: I haven't made my enjoyment of either of these artists a secret particularly in recent years. Droog had a fantastic 2021 dropping two of my favorite projects of his to date in Tha Wolf  and Time . Even given that, I did come away from the pairs second collaboration of 2021, The YOD Fahim  thinking it was one of the least impressive and most scrapped together projects I heard that year. So getting a sequel and a third collaboration in just over a year had me a bit skeptical of whether this thing would be getting the treatment it deserves, even...

The first collection of rapid fire review of 2021 comes from a collection of hip hop collaborations that unfortunately I didn't get around to reviewing earlier in the year. Some of the projects are short and some are from very prolific release series but they all were worth commenting on before the year got too far along. Your Old Droog/Tha God Fahim - Tha Wolf On Wall St While this is a short outing from the pair of underground MC's at just 27 minutes I like it quite a bit. The beats are interesting some of them are more conventional lowkey hip hop outings but there are a few really interesting instrumentals in the mix as well. Droog is his typical blend of stone-faced and confident and Fahim mostly keeps up with the exception of a track or two where he shows off rhyme schemes that feel below his pen game. The record features numerous slick interpolations of sampled vocals that I find super interesting as the transitions between songs and only really has one or two beats that ...