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Chopped soul samples and grimy, old-NYC wisdom from two of hip-hop’s most respected minds.

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Alchemist is 'The Silent Partner' in him and Havoc's pretty good new LP

So Havoc and The Alchemist made an album together. Is anyone surprised? Actually the question should be is anyone surprised that the Mobb Deep rapper/producer is the one rapping and Alchemist is the one producing. That is the usual arrangement for these guys, as it is also the case on The Silent Partner LP (May 20, Babygrande Records), but it would have been much more fun to hear The Alchemist rap with both him and Havoc on the beats. A quixotic wish? To some yeah but definitely not impossible or unreasonable. Al the sound-master has been witness to many a rapper spitting their craft in the booth for years, as their respected music-man so he must have picked up some more notes on emceeing, not to mention an itch to get back into it.

Back in the early 1990s when he was Mudfoot next to actor Scott Caan's Mad Skillz alias in the group The Whooliganz, Alchemist rhymed, though since they broke up he has mostly morphed into a behind-the-boards player of the game leaving imaginative heads to pipe-dream of him behind the mic in a major way once again. So before we have fans wishing themselves into comas or arguing about the decided split-up of duties until they're blue in the face, just remember that now that it is completely finalized and on the loose, this Silent Partner album can never be anything but a vocalization of the coarse gritty thoughts of the mafia-man in Havoc, with Al being his behind-the-scenes silent partner in crime, his beat-man.

Though this is strictly a mafioso rap album, it's not bad, and it is not bad because Alchemist has made another fine set of beats and Havoc shares more of his crafty wordplay, even if it's about nothing other than street criminal activity. That can't be overlooked. Al shows some variation in his music production with twinkly lullaby sounds in "Out The Frame" and dark creeping suspense mode tracks elsewhere, but both risk appearing one track minded in their methods of operation.

Mobb Deeper Prodigy, Wu-Tang's Method Man and fine Queensbridge emcee Cormega are ample features for the two and all the album needs and should have by way of guests. Havoc and The Alchemist have worked together in the past of course, but not to the extensive level as joint collaborators on an exclusive duo-album like Silent Partner. The combination is expectable and the proceedings are monotonous in their cool laid-back gangsterism, but it's also a further establishment of both members' greatness plus pure hip-hop to boot. Still, is it too much to ask for something different from Al and Hav at this stage in the game?

Fire!!

Can wait for this right here..havoc & alc must have

Mandatory cop

If you love the Mobb and/or Alc, this is a mandatory must buy.

Biography

Born: May 21, 1974 in Queens, New York, NY

Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

As one of the less-heralded architects of '90s hardcore rap, Queens native producer-MC Havoc (born Kejuan Muchita) never received the same level of credit accorded to Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, but his productions on his albums with Prodigy as Mobb Deep -- especially 1995's classic The Infamous -- were among some of the starkest, grimiest, and deceptively musical beats of the era. Havoc didn't keep his work strictly to Mobb Deep releases. He granted early productions to Nas' It Was Written and Nastradamus,...
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