Chicago, Illinois emcee D2X coming off his first EP The Starvation Period final summer season to place out a 2nd one. Releasing his full-length studio debut album The Colour Blue within the spring of 2021 & later the sophomore effort Lodge 1105 a pair summers later. Like I mentioned earlier: The Starvation Period was primarily a love letter to the Windy Metropolis that made him sending greater shockwaves within the underground than his first couple LPs did & was questioning if Boy within the Blue Hoodie might attain or surpass that very same stage.

The harps firstly of “‘Twas the Day” are nice to the ear till the chipmunk soul instrumental is available in full impact making method for the Chicago MC to inform the story of a younger boy’s dream & discovering his peace in mine for the following album whereas “Gentle Up the Lake” takes a jazzier method with the horns & a soulful pattern making a love letter to a greater model of himself. After the spoken phrase jazz “Miles Away” interlude, “Blue Ocean Water” sends off the story of the Boy within the Blue Hoodie with a beat kin paying homage to The Heatmakerz calling himself a future corridor of famer.

Understandably, D2X’s continuation of The Starvation Periodgoes from paying homage to the Metropolis that made him giving the world an thought of the place he’s from to a extra introspective facet of himself letting individuals inside who he’s as an individual & his background. One of many coolest issues Boy within the Blue Hoodie is that he balances the jazz rap sound he’s all the time been identified for with the chipmunk soul model of manufacturing that RZA, Ye or previously Kanye West, Simply Blaze & as I discussed earlier The Heatmakerz have all pioneer & popularize retelling his life’s story.

Rating: 9/10