Detroit's Mickey Diamond returns with his 10th full-length LP. Emerging in early 2020 on the strength of his debut EP Bangkok Dangerous, the dude has since turned quite a few heads in the underground building an impressive discography for himself with his previous 9 albums along with 7 EPs & & mixtapes a couple. But over the past year, Mickey has been consistently putting out some of the best material of his career so far. This includes the Gucci Ghost album and its sequel produced by Big Ghost Ltd., produced by Ral Duke Oroku Saki EP, produced by Sadhugold Death threat$ album & The Camoflauge Monk production Capital gains album. However to come off Gone in 60 seconds & Dangerous Bangkok 4he is surprised a 3rd dose of Gucci Ghost.
The first song “Live Fast” after the introduction of “Maurizio's Dead, Somebody Shot Em” kicks off the LP with a boom-bap piano music that lives in the fast lane and wants to die free, while “Nauti by Nature” works on more pianos. , kicks & snares talk about shooting. “Gucci Underwear” weaves another piano-boom bap hybrid into the fold firing at everyone who's been disappointed up to this point before “Icebergs” shifts to richer turf, a reminder that there's dark matter scattered throughout.
“Patrizia's” kicks off the LP's 2nd leg by returning to boom bap, assuring that he could do it forever if he wanted to, just before “Reggiani's Revenge” harshly encourages you to check his bank account and see all the dead which are called dead. presidents he has piled up for himself so far. After the “Murder for Hire” break, “Designer Caskets” dustily compares its flow to hot lava, and “Aldo's Ghost” ties the Gucci Ghost vanishing into vapor trilogy.
Oroku Saki is the best EP we've gotten from Mickey in 2023, but I firmly believe that Gucci Ghost 3 has now taken over Death threat$position for the best full-leng he has scored this year and is certainly a late AOTY contender with only a few weeks to go until the start of 2024. Unlike its predecessor which was heavier and the original Gucci Ghost having only one pair, it's just Diamond & Big Ghost here continuing to elevate each other as they have for the past year.
Rating: 9/10
