Norwalk, Connecticut emcee Chris Webby tapping in with The Roots’ authentic keyboardist & former Aftermath Leisure in-house producer Scott Storch for his 4th EP. Getting launched to him throughout my senior yr of highschool when his full-length studio debut album Chemically Imbalanced beneath his personal label 80HD Music in tandem with MNRK Music Group, he would go on to spend the late 2010s & the 2020s up till final Christmas doing the Wednesday collection of mixtapes. 88 Milligrams linking up with one in every of my private favourite producers had me pondering it was gonna be his best prolonged play of his profession.
After the “ASMR” intro, “Excellent Storm” begins the EP by pushing the palms on the doomsday clock over an instrumental that Scott Storch would’ve made within the 2000s throughout & succeeding his time with Aftermath whereas “In My Baggie” works in some pianos to speak about taking capsules off the shelf at 12. “Put ‘Em Excessive” cinematically cautions that nobody desires to be a hero tonight whereas the trap-influenced “Working Scared” talks about taking part in the playing cards till they hit.
“Pyro” nears the top of 88 Milligrams with a beat throwing it again to both “Sweet Store” or “Only a Lil Bit” off of 50 Cent’s sophomore effort The Bloodbath celebrating it’s 2 decade anniversary earlier this spring speaking about arising within the spot to burn the place down main into the cloudy “Rollercoaster” sending off the EP with Chris evaluating life to a experience the best way it goes up & down for roughly 5 & a half minutes.
As anyone who received launched to him over a decade in the past, Chris Webby has come a great distance from his frat rap days prior to now 15 years & 88 Milligrams comes proper off the conclusion of the 80HD Music founder’s prolific Wednesday tapes with essentially the most I’ve loved his music shortly & simply his most cohesive EP on my opinion. Scott Storch’s manufacturing takes a nostalgic flip to when he was all around the airwaves as an against adapting to fashionable sounds or methods like having a producer tag on Dummy Boy & Chris will get in his baggie lyrically.
Rating: 9/10