Chicago, Illinois emcee D2X coming off his first EP The Starvation Period final summer time to place out a 2nd one. Releasing his full-length studio debut album The Shade Blue within the spring of 2021 & later the sophomore effort Resort 1105 a pair summers later. Like I stated earlier: The Starvation Period was basically a love letter to the Windy Metropolis that made him sending larger shockwaves within the underground than his first couple LPs did & was questioning if Boy within the Blue Hoodie may attain or surpass that very same stage.
The harps at the beginning of “‘Twas the Day” are nice to the ear till the chipmunk soul instrumental is available in full impact making method for the Chicago MC to inform the story of a younger boy’s dream & discovering his peace in mine for the subsequent album whereas “Gentle Up the Lake” takes a jazzier strategy with the horns & a soulful pattern making a love letter to a greater model of himself. After the spoken phrase jazz “Miles Away” interlude, “Blue Ocean Water” sends off the story of the Boy within the Blue Hoodie with a beat kin harking back to The Heatmakerz calling himself a future corridor of famer.
Understandably, D2X’s continuation of The Starvation Periodgoes from paying homage to the Metropolis that made him giving the world an concept of the place he’s from to a extra introspective aspect of himself letting folks within who he’s as an individual & his background. One of many coolest issues Boy within the Blue Hoodie is that he balances the jazz rap sound he’s at all times been recognized for with the chipmunk soul model of manufacturing that RZA, Ye or previously Kanye West, Simply Blaze & as I discussed earlier The Heatmakerz have all pioneer & popularize retelling his life’s story.
Rating: 9/10