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What do you get when you cross a poet/emcee with a platinum selling producer? You get “Death Drive”, the collaborative effort from Anticon founder Sole & Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes affiliate DJ Pain 1. “Death Drive” also serves as the headliner to the duo’s warm up EP “Warfare” that dropped this past April. The project boasts thirteen songs and fuses politically driven lyrics with commercially graded production. The project kicks off with the title track “Death Drive”, which speaks on the current state of the American lifestyle. “Gauntlet” finds both Sole & Pain at their best, with Sole kicking lyrics that will draw comparisons to his former Anticon days and Pain 1 adding in a dope synth line on the chorus and sick scratches at the tail end. On “Baghdad Shake”, Sole does something I believe hasn’t been done or done to this level, he makes a politically driven dance anthem. Something that’s not easily accomplished and definitely worth checking out.
We get a nice surprise on “The Janitor’s Son”, a guest feature from Pedestrian, another founding member of the Anticon label. Sole and Pedestrian exchange steaming linguistics over this one. Once again, Pain 1 delivers top notch production on “Rap Game Darwin”. The beat alone will have listeners putting the track on repeat in the gym or in the front of the picket line. “Hey Liberals” is a track that carries a strong resemblance to Slick Rick’s “Hey Young World” but with a political spin on it. We get Sole’s take on religion with an assist from Sean from Andrew Jackson Jihad on “Old Gods Ain’t Dead”. “Unscorch The Earth” finds Pain mixing hard rock, classical and club music all into a deadly Molotov cocktail bomb for Sole to scorch the mic with, another pinnacle of the project.
All in all, “Death Drive” is an album that successfully merges meaningful lyrics, top notch production and experimentation between avenues that typically couldn’t pull of a mixture of this magnitude. The project will appeal to fans of Anticon, listeners that care for lyrical content and for those that have or are growing tired of mainstream hip hop & rap. With a high replay value, “Death Drive” serves as the precursor of what to expect out of a Sole/ DJ Pain 1 project from here on out. Make sure to grab yourself a copy when it drops on June 10th from the following link.
http://sole.bandcamp.com/album/death-drive
Written By: blitzb_60505
