Add 2 x Khrysis - Between Heaven & Hell Ep

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get a bar !
http://www.audiomack.com/album/2dbz/between-heaven-and-hell

Produced By: Khrysis (of the soul souncil)
Jamla Is The Squad.

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AHipHopHead Review -

If you looking for that music for you to twerk to, or get your ratchet on; this EP is not for you. Add-2 sparks the mic with wordplay, vivid lyrics, and melodic flow from Track 1: The Birth to Track 9: The Glorious. Accompanied by the classic beats of Khrysis(listen to #FunkWhatchuHeard), the Chicago emcee proves again to the world that his spot is solidified and only getting bigger. It’s easy to see what class of lyricist Add-2 is with bars such as:


Sometimes I’m heated I feel like I need to vent, like what if I missed my time, what if it came and went
 Spending all of my money and shit ain’t been making sense got my diploma and broke as them niggas that never went
 But, other than God tell me really who you gotta fear, my granny’s eyes probably cry for a 100 years
 With no legs I could run it for a 100 years, I been savage(Ben Savage), No Wonder Years


-Add-2, The Birth

Club Church is an amazing song with a smooth vibe. Add starts off the song by immediately placing you in his state of mind with:


What if the club was a church, DJ was the pastor,

and shots was communion…Lets break bread

Heads paying to just get in, like they paying their tithes

But you can’t come as you are, the dress code kinda tight

-Add-2, Club Church

As I continued my audio journey Between Heaven And Hell, every song shows why legendary producer, 9th Wonder, would place the Jamla stamp of approval on the Windy City wordsmith. Known for making abundant appearances on djbooth.net and 2dopeboyz.com, it seems everytime Add-2 steps into limelight, it shines immensely. The EP features 2 of his labelmates, GQ and Rapsody, and filled with Boom Bap essence. An excellent addition to your collection of REAL hip hop.

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There are albums that actually know how to stick to the theme/storyline given. When this happens, we usually are blessed with music that can actually either reach many or can be known as one of those great moments. It has happened before. Recent albums by Kendrick Lamar (Good Kid, M.a.a.d City) to even Kool Keith and Dan the Automator’s classic (Dr. Octagon) reminds us of when this works wonders. Thus, having a theme, or storyline, that guides the entire album assists in the quality of the overall project.

 

When Add 2 and Khrysis came together for the criminally short Between Heaven & Hell, the theme was given in the title. What we have is a mixtape that should have never been given out for free.

 

Throughout the album (not that sorry E.P. mess), we have Add-2 synonymously spitting some of his most introspective rhymes and the toughest flows he could ever approach. If you take a good listen to “Runnin’”, he uses his mastery of breath-control and the English language to explain how people run away from their issues (until they catch up). “The Death of Chicago” allows Add-2 to delve into the “sweet smell of corruption” in a city that constantly “sleepin’ with Sleep’s cousin”. Even on “The Ugly Side of Beautiful”, he laments over his grandmother’s dementia, the death of his people, and finding beauty through it all. Throughout the entire album, Add-2 works to “show the stuff that they don’t show like a black light”.

 

It is the duality of his messages that attains the ears by exhibiting the best, and the worst, of the human condition.



 

 

The production, however, will probably get as much props as the rhymes on this effort. Khrysis shows us why 9th Wonder holds him to such high esteem. On “Club Heaven/Club Hell”, the beat changes between the “heavenly sounds” and “hedonistic rhythms” to show where Add-2’s story switches up. The ethereal beauty in Khrysis’s production can easily be heard during the end of “The Ugly Side of Beautiful” with its extended break. However, that doesn’t explain the simplicity of what makes the production such an audible treat. Khrysis uses the basis of soul samples and boom bap to craft a sound-bed for Add-2 to rhyme over. With this sound-bed, Add-2 can move minds, and sometimes bodies, with ease.

 

Being his second mixtape, and one of the better releases of 2013, makes Between Heaven & Hell necessary listening. Add-2 was recently added to the Jamla roster. This being his “coming out party” doesn’t make that much difference in the end result. The end result comes from the culmination of great rhymes and enthralling production. At the end of the day, Earth is between heaven and hell; it is the inhabitants of said planet that need to hear this EP.

 

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[Chamillitary Click]

LMAOOOOO. The struggle is too real for this nigga. Nobody cares. Even if you quintuple post.

Skyzoo >>>>>>>>

[Black Excellence]

LMAOOOOO. The struggle is too real for this nigga. Nobody cares. Even if you quintuple post.

Skyzoo >>>>>>>>

you care that's why you posted. add 2 >>>>>>

[Chamillitary Click]

I'm actually dying laughing how sad you come off trying to push some wack EP.

Almost as funny as you trying to tell me you work two five hours shifts in the same day, eight hours apart.

[Black Excellence]

I'm actually dying laughing how sad you come off trying to push some wack EP.

Almost as funny as you trying to tell me you work two five hours shifts in the same day, eight hours apart.

LOL @ you callin' somethin' wack you've never listened to and you thinkin' you know me. wigger get lost.

[Chamillitary Click]

Denial.

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Denial.

yes you are

[Leggy Hendrix]

Cham, i dont have any problem with you, but this is a dope ass album, definitely worth a listen, regardless of whatever beefing you and cm get up to

Club Church/Club Hell is my favourite cut on here, but its quality from start to finish

[Black Excellence]

Cham, i dont have any problem with you, but this is a dope ass album, definitely worth a listen, regardless of whatever beefing you and cm get up to

Club Church/Club Hell is my favourite cut on here, but its quality from start to finish

salute !

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[BiggSadot]

Cham, i dont have any problem with you, but this is a dope ass album, definitely worth a listen, regardless of whatever beefing you and cm get up to

Club Church/Club Hell is my favourite cut on here, but its quality from start to finish

He bumpin this shit on the low trust me. He dont like admitting when people like me or cm put him up on good shit he didnt know about. He like to say Cormega garbage cuz i stay toutin him on here but lo and behold a month or so back he has Megas newest track with Rae in his sig. When I mentioned it to him he did the funny shit n changed it to that lil b song he got on there now.

That said Ugly Side of Beautiful is that shit.