Staten Island, New York, born though Baltimore, Maryland based Emcee/Producer Jamil Honesty links up with Giallo Point for his 4th EP. He gets the power of his debut mixtape Lyricswould go on to build a name for himself, but releasing 3 EPs and a full-length debut that would serve as a follow-up to one of the Hobgoblin-produced EPs. Coming off the Harbor Kidz self-titled debut alongside production Krazyfingaz God's honest truth or Machacha produced Give us our daily bread & his final installment March Music trilogy, The Dismissal of Jamil Footage from the Soviet Union.
After the intro, first song “Bolshevik Bullets” is this boom bang piano opener that compares the bars to Russian vagrants while “The Hit” removes the drums completely talking about everyone in the streets who knows the name. After a break, Substance810's “Double Barrel” hooks the kick and trap back, spitting gun talk, while official boom bap joint “DNA” talks about getting your life out in a cypher if you're cut out for it .
“Makarov Murders” kicks off the final leg of EC dropping bodies with the venerable semi-automatic pistol that the Soviet Union has made its standard military sidearm for over 7 decades, leading to “Gun Pen” harshly comparing the pen game to that of a firearm, which is quite accurate. The last song “No Evidence” before the outro ends the EP by mixing in some samples with kicks and snares that speak to the removal of the murder scene.
After producing Big Trip's most acclaimed EPs to date Honestly Filthy And it's the sequel, Jamil taps one of the UK hip hop scene's most prolific producers in recent memory to make an EP that surpasses March Music trilogy as the most substantial offering in his discography. I have no complaints about Giallo Point's boom bap production over the course of 21 minutes, nor do I have any complaints about Jamil's performances.
Rating: 9/10
