Portsmouth, Ohio emcee/producer Billy Obey celebrating his born day together with his official solo debut. Identified for being a founding member of the almighty Alla Xul Elu, he alongside Joey Black & later Lee Carver have spent the previous 7 years build up their independently owned Lengthy Stay Evil file label as a model you’ll be able to belief throughout the underground depraved shit scene with the Tremendous Well-known Enjoyable Time Guys & S.O.N. becoming a member of LLE’s roster. In preparation of Xul’s upcoming seventh album No Masters, the Rhymebook of the Lately Deceased is getting cracked open.
After titular intro, “By no means Belief the Dwelling” opens with an occult rap rock/growth bap crossover going 187 on all these different rappers whereas the industrially uncooked “Creepin’ It Actual” talks about being an artist in relation to homicide. “Ugly on the Inside” poses the query of whether or not or not one sees particular person or somebody like him when trying on the mirror whereas “Snake Oil Salesman” talks about looking for one thing that isn’t soil.
“Saviour Save Your Breath” hits the midway mark by suggesting that nothing might be mentioned to vary his methods since he’ll all the time be the identical whereas the infernal growth bap lower “Hell’s Put on the Coronary heart Is” talks about being a licensed psycho born & raised staying greater than his metropolis’s abortion price. “Life Sentence” makes it a mission to let the world know he’s writing his life away when he goes whereas “Household Portrait” talks about nonetheless being misplaced even in body.
The music “Taking Me Locations” begins the Rhymebook of the Lately Deceased’s closing pages by discussing how creativity has taken him farther than he may’ve ever imagined & daydreaming of slowing down simply earlier than “Once I Noticed You” talks about the one means he’d ever depart this girl he’s obsessive about is in items. “Somebody Else, Someplace Else” finishes the LP by tackling the problem of accepting the timeline we’re dwelling in irrespective of the hand you’re given.
It was laborious to inform whether or not when or if Billy Obey would ever launch a solo venture since Lee Carver beforehand dropped Bloodbath Masks & The Backstabber’s Handbook previous to him becoming a member of Alla Xul Elu however no matter whether or not or not Joey Black decides to place out a solo effort now that Xul left Majik Ninja Leisure couple months in the past, Rhymebook of the Lately Deceased makes for a correctly nice introduction of what Invoice Now the Science Cow can do on his personal with the commercial growth bap sound A.X.E. is understood for & their lyrically depraved lyricism.
Rating: 9/10