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It’s been three years since the Clipse dropped their critically acclaimed album Hell Hath No Fury, received a classic rating from XXL magazine, and now they are out to prove that they are the self proclaimed “best duo ever” with their latest opus Til the Casket Drops. With this album, they took a different of constructing it by working with outside producers for the first time ever. Sean C & LV produced two tracks and DJ Khalil produced three tracks with The Neptunes handling the rest. The topics they cover on the album follows the old saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Their superior rhymes still talk about cocaine and the good life but the messages are always deeper.


“Freedom” the album’s intro, the group delves into their personal lives and paints a picture with their lines over a guitar heavy beat done by Sean C & LV. The next two tracks were singles. “Kinda Like a Big Deal” featuring Kanye West and “Popular Demand (Popeyes)” featuring Cam’ron and Pharrell are certified bangers with heavy beats and even harder lines. An interesting surprise is on the next track “Showin’ Out” featuring Yo Gotti, Drake was originally on the track, and he holds his own with the Thornton brothers. The album then has a feel good track, the album’s first single; “I’m Good” featuring Pharrell. The tandem talk about enjoying life and not letting minor things put you down.


The Clipse try a new approach to the song “There Was a Murder” by using a little bit of patois in their lyrics and with the hook and beat, it all goes together for another great song. “Door Man” is a bass heavy, flashy rhyming song that takes the album to another level. The Re-Up Gang unites with Ab-Liva on “Never Will It Stop”. Pusha T is at his cockiest when he spews “I come from the corner like most niggas, now from afar I toast niggas, roast niggas, anywhere whichever the coast nigga, compare me to them two ghost niggas, Hail Mary”.

The album goes sour on the next song “All Eyes on Me” featuring Keri Hilson and Pharrell. It is a blatant attempt for pop charts and does not mesh the rest of the album. The rest of the album goes back to top notch quality with the last song “Life Change” standing out. Malice uses a bible verse when he says “I was wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.”

With this album they prove they are still the best group out and take their careers to another level. You can argue that this is the best hip hop album of the year. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another three years for them to come out with something else.