Fashawn - The Antidote Compiled And Produced By The Alchemist

As forecasted today we are blessed with a new tape from Fresno, CA rhymer Fashawn and the one, the only Alchemist, who backs him up on the boards...

I decided to throw this up earlier rather than later, mainly because tonight I'mma be occupied with the kickoff of the NFL season (been waitin a minute, but now it's finally here) and so I'll likely either be too inebriated to check in on Purehip-hop or just flat out too into the game...

Anyway...

I really like this tape man...Comprised of all new musical compositions from both men, you definitely get an older feel from Al as far as the beats go...I see he's really getting more and more into adding lil' dissident samples from movies and interviews and whatnot these days, which has always been a technique of his, but never this frequently used. Also he's really diminishing the role that the drums play on a lot of the tracks. The percussion is damn near non-existent on many of them, a la recent Madlib and classic J Dilla. Fashawn sounds really at home over the mellow and breezy sound beds, providing ample words to sort of fill them up and this collaboration is a huge success...Al's music is so diverse and brave, he's not afraid to go anywhere, even re-flipping that classic Boot Camp sample for the last track "I Got It Sewn".

Al only makes one rhyming excursion on this project...unfortunately things still remain the same on that front, as he is basically the odd man out lyrically on the aural symphony that is "From The Creation". Roc C and OhNo pick up the slack however, and the two west coast underground luminaries sound great over yet another familiar sample.

Al really provides a great buncha beats for this tape and that's where he shoulda left it perhaps, but I don't blame him for jumping on that joint...Fash has that effect on people; his music makes you wanna join in and has a high degree of infectiousness. I think that with the right moves (this being one of them) that Fash could really start to establish himself as a prominent MC on the West Coast. Lord knows he has the talent. We'll have to see whether he puts it all together on his new LP "Boy Meets World" (which drops next month) and this upcoming full length colloboration with Alchemist...but I gotta say, I expect big things from him.

The "Antidote" is a dope look see at what these two are capable of doing together, but at only 22 minutes long it's definitely just a quick intravenous dose....nevertheless, it does get you amped for what's yet to come.

-BIG D O












01. Intro
02. Shall Come A New Name
03. Fash Plays It Cool
04. The Antidote
05. Gone In 60 Seconds
06. Rap Seduction
07. Whats Your World
08. From The Creation (feat. The Alchemist, Roc C & OHNO)]
09. FYT
10. Lost In New York
11. Got It Sewn



http://rapidshare.com/files/277962161/Fashawn-The_Antidote-OnSMASH-2009.zip