The Shadow In the Shade 2 – Sy Ari Da Kid

01. Autobiography f. Bigga Rankin

02. True Facts

03. Yard Sale

04. Strugglin’ To Struggle f. Freeway

05. The Pride Before the Fall

06. Vantage Point

07. Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations

08. To Be Continued

09. A Consultation f. Mickey Factz

10. Sy-95 (Interlude)

11. The Rules of Engagement

12. Chicken Flavor Ramen Noodles

13. Final Fantasy 7

14. Bad News First

15. Somewhere On Norfolk Street f. Trouble

16. Jagged Edge

17. A Word From Pops (Interlude)

18. Ain’t Been To Church In a While

19. Spar With an Open Verse

20. A President Short of a Nomination

21. Dosvidaniya

This dude dropped AOTY at the beginning of the year, and then dropped another AOTY at the end of the year with this one. I am not arguing with anyone, this project has everything. Every beat, every bar, every feature, every hook, the pacing, the gems, the consistency, the quality, the mixes, honestly I don’t even know what else I could list, even the album art is fire. This is genuine, this is songwriting, raps and production at its highest tier and it all feels complete and goes together. If you can honestly listen to this and say theres something on it that you don’t like, you ate paint chips as a child and must seek compensation from a late night 1800 number. The amount of quotables on this, the relatable tracks, the relevant tracks to this industry and just if you grew up with some sort of struggle this all hits. To drop 2, 21 song projects this dope in one year, has to mean this is easy for him and theres more. Whats funny is today people probably only gonna notice that Drake and 21 project that dropped today too. I hope this was on purpose to go toe to toe with that BS. In rotation.

10/10 – John D.