Artist: Estee Nack and Superior
Album: BALADAS
Favorite Track: “SAMMYSOSACLEANCOCA” “AROCKANDAHARDPLACE” “MANGOMARMALADE”
Least Favorite Tracks: “PLEGARIAAUNSICARIO”
Grade: 4/5
If after the flood of projects from Griselda and Metal Clergy weren’t enough, Estee Nack and Superior are here to give you a fix of hard bars and dope beats.
The first time I recall hearing Estee Nack was on Westside Gunn’s “Banana Yacht” track from last year they had Nack over some lush production spitting bilingual street bars over some of the lushest production I have heard. For me Nack’s style is like if Roc Marciano and Styles P combined, the flow is a little slow but the hard street life lyrics, put you on the block with Nack.
The production handled by Superior is definitely dope bringing that sample heavy Boom Bap production that fits Nack like a glove. “AROCKANDAHARDPLACE” is probably the hardest track on the project where Nack spits “Show me the guap or get out my face, I’m not trying to hear about your saint, uppercut one of motherfuckers to outer space”.
The only really problem I had with the project was it needed one or two more bangers toward the latter half. I saw where Nack was going with the theme of reflecting on street life on the track “WISDOM” to differentiate the content, but the following two tracks had a similar style that wasn’t as aggressive as the earlier tracks like the intro and “AROCKANDAHARDPLACE”.
With that being said “BALADAS” will definitely be in the rotation, it’s a nice break when I want to hear a grimy street rapper with a different approach. I will be checking out anything Estee Nack and Superior drop in the future, I know I’ll have his catchy ad lib “woooooooooah!” in my head for a long time.