The sound of
Mobb Deep. It didn’t fade so much as mutate. For Amani & King Vision Ultra, it’s as if Mobb Deep’s insomniac grind finally wore out. There’s no nostalgia on ‘An Unknown Infinite’. The album might be birthed from that New York sound, but the city, it’s legacy, they respect it too much not to add something to it.
‘Scrapes’ is a kind of boom bap comedown. An aftermath. I love the bass on this: lethargic but dub heavy, Keith Hudson heavy. There’s this other presence too. Noise that doesn’t disrupt so much as seethe alongside. Then comes ‘Holyfield’, the first we hear from Amani.