DJ Muggs - Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley REACTION/REVIEW

[@battle619]

DJ Muggs is literally the professor of the newer sound of Hip Hop. He’s a living legend that doesn’t care about the accolades that comes with being a legendary producer. He truly cares about preserving the Hip Hop culture and sound by supporting real MC’s that care about the same.

[@BSideRapReviews]

Big ole facts! I like how you said professor, and ironically it seems like he still a student of the game. Him and alchemist really share that temperament and I think it's no coincidence they're 2 of the best right now. Now that said, he shoulda chose better features. I think the other 2 soul assassins focused less on big named legends and more of just dudes who can spit and they were a lot better than this joint

[@battle619]

@@BSideRapReviews - I think what happened with this SA3 is that the songs are short and the baselines don’t hit as hard. The times have changed and he did a great job of adjusting. He’s a legend he can do that. But unfortunately in comparison to the first 2 it’s just not fair the creative atmosphere was through the rough and those are classics

[@keithpolo51]

Im always excited to see work from Muggs. The basslines in his samples are always on point. Im On and Where We At are on repeat. The flute/recorder loop on Where We At just sends me to a different world. Sicilian Gold, Majik and Crazy Horse are also on my repeats as well. I will say I can do without some of the other songs tho, but it’s dope seeing Muggs keeping Soul Assassins alive. Salute B-Side

[@BSideRapReviews]

Yeah facts baselines and drums don’t ever miss for him. Faaaacts idk what exactly it remind me of but it sound nostalgic for some reason. For me, crazy horse best song on here. I been running that nonstop. Actually been playing street made a ton, just skipping to Freddie’s part lol. Yeah, I feel like outside the best songs, muggs production wasn’t nearly as consistent as it normally is. But rapping held this back more than the beats to me. Soul assassins 2 didn’t even have the big names as 3 did, but the rapping was still significantly better. He’ll bounce back tho - im excited to see who he work with next. I want to see him and Roc run it back. All their songs they’ve done since kaos been way better than the album was lol. Salute bro! Preciate you tapping in! 💪🏾

[@EWeis33]

I love that you dont get stuck on the momentum hahaha You going from Roc and CRIMEAPPLE to the Slick Rick verse was hilarious

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lmaooo man Muggs was wrong for that - that was waaaayy too jarring! Whole album was a roller coaster dawg 😂

[@yungty7321]

Lmao nigga said he had ptsd before the b real verse I feel you 😂😂

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lmaoooo felt like I was getting abused by the album leading up to that song 😭😭😭

[@SpiderSla7er]

Especially after that "I'm still hungry like I'm fasting" line 😭

[@MortiferGnome]

B. Real will always live in my head for "I'm coming' out blastin' like Yosemite Sam. Got the cheese and the bread for the ham."

[@BSideRapReviews]

That’s a bar 🔥🔥🔥 it always trips me out when I remember muggs was in cypress hill cus his style has evolved so much!

[@facelessronin9644]

B-Side, you already know if Roc is involved I'm showing up to the party carrying some expensive wine I can't afford. He's been my favorite MC since Reloaded so I'm a little biased but he really seems to outshine niggas anytime he's on a feature. Crimeapple is dope too tho. He be having me walking around randomly exclaiming "dohma" under my breath and ion even know what that shit means. Apologies to my Colombian niggas if I spelled it wrong.🫢 I hate to say it but I agree with you on the old skool MCs on the album. Cube needs to focus on the Big 3 and stay away from the booth. I will definitely be making a playlist minus most of the old heads unfortunately although I appreciate what Muggs was going for with the pairings on here. Last, Jay Worthy is mid and I have no idea how he continues to end up on projects with some of the best MCs in the game.

[@BSideRapReviews]

Same bruh - I can't miss a Roc verse! I got put onto Roc Marci late. My first joint was Behold a Darkhorse and I that joint got me hooked. He's top 2 or 3 on the planet right now imo. Lmaooo no cap I be doing the same thing 😂😂😂 I think he saying "toma" which means "take" in Spanish. Not sure why he'd be saying that tho - maybe it's his version of Puff's "take that" lol. But yeah I'm with you. Crime not the most consistent rapper but when he's on he's own. Normally, he's at his best when he's working with a dope producer too. Yeah bruh I'm not tryna hear no rapper who aint active and still nice. There's plenty rappers from that era or around that era who still nice that he coulda chose from. Woulda loved to hear maybe Busta, Black Thought, Jadakiss, Pharaoh Monche, or any of the other wu tang cats. Just wayyyy too many better options than those awful verses we got. Bruh I don't get it either - some of these guys just got friends with pull and get brought along for the ride. Honestly feel the same way about TF. Matter fact my entire intro to TF was Schoolboy Q's Tookie Knows....a song that I think woulda been one of Q's best songs if TF and the other dude wasn't on it lol.

[@surr3al1s]

Nothing but facts in every sentence. I’m a certified old head and Marci is my favorite emcee with KA making a close 2nd. The Metal Clergy Myth lives on… Glad somebody addressed these reg’lar sounding ass dudes with the producer hookups. …and Stove ain’t been fire since he started talking greasy about Marci. Westside’s last album was trash too😄 Ok, the curmudgeon is done.

[@JEStheUniversual]

I don't know. I really like that Ceelo Green track. Him and Muggs are working on a project together where Ceelo raps the entire project. Something I've been waiting for since he went solo. Apparently that beat is from an old 1998 beat tape from Muggs. I think the beat is fire, and Ceelo is playing homage to Chicano culture.

[@henryhill6637]

My favorite track and really only track I thought was the best .

[@JEStheUniversual]

@@henryhill6637 Yeah I fucks with this track heavy.

[@SSX1799]

Great review dawg. I agree pretty much whole-heartedly with your takes. The tape had its moments for sure but the variation in skill levels and beat selection(which can partly be attributed to the rappers) made it a bit of a roller coaster. I know we’ll hear better from Muggs in the near future, and these past few years he’s given us truly amazing material. For elite projects we got Voir Dire that just dropped, and Mach seems to be right around the corner. Speaking of, we’d love to see a Voir Dire reaction fasho.

[@BSideRapReviews]

Preciate you! Yeah joints like Crazy Horse, Sicilian Gold, and Skeleton Bones make it worth the listen but dang it was a shaky ride lol. Yeah, imo this like the only real miss from him in this whole era of his career. He obviously still got it cus his beats on Champagne for Breakfast were AMAZING! Ready for him to do a one rapper project those. I haven't peeped the Voir Dire joint yet - I didn't realize it had actually dropped until like a day ago because they didn't have it on streaming. I'm most likely doing reaction of that. Bro at this point, I think Mach is waiting for Gunn to drop so he can step on his release lmao. I don't think they on good terms and Mach's album seemed like it was finished months ago.

[@steelersfan1743]

Cool project. I think some of the production could of been better. My favorite song is the roc and crimeapple song. I think that check in sample was the same as Hood Blues

[@BSideRapReviews]

Yeah muggs one of my fav producers but he aint kill it like he normally do. Yeah the Roc and Crimeapple song was my fav too - they went off! Wish all the rapping was on that caliber. That chord sound similar af! I think it might be a different sample tho cus the hood blues sample is horns…I’m not 100% but it sound like keys on check in but it still might be. Classic sample - when Sean price rapped over it on figure 4, I think that’s was my first time hearing Sean p.

[@TheDopestOfShit]

Roc Marciano and Freddie Gibbs gotta hit the chiropractor for their backs after carrying that shit

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lmaoooo nah for real 😂😂 They got a lil help here and there but fasho got the highlights of the album. Honestly tho- I shoulda seen this coming based on the trackless. Everybody did bout what I expected.

[@qstreetac7795]

Bro the face you made when roc jumped on the track is all of us. Lol, love it!

[@BSideRapReviews]

Roc made this album worth the listen lol! I need him and Muggs to do another album cus that Kaos joint aint do their talent justice

[@zncuentertainment712]

Great review! Did you check out that Coast Contra "Breath and Stop"?

[@BSideRapReviews]

Yezzir - they talented af! Chemistry is insane - they remind me of like a west coast EARTHGANG (with more members).So far I’ve really only heard this freestyle series and a couple singles so I gotta check out they album.

[@zncuentertainment712]

@@BSideRapReviews I'm in the same boat, I haven't heard their album but their "freestyles" are insane.

[@RESET_-bg7kw]

thanks for the review :D. Please also do Dark Lo - Charlie Pope 2

[@supwell]

You're one of the best rap analysts man. Love to see this 💪🏽

[@BandsMaysTVCEO]

I needed this brother! This might be the hottest thing we got all month.

[@BSideRapReviews]

My guy!! Yo I can't even lie - Ima huge muggs fan but I wasn't feeling this joint. You peeped that Mick Jenkins joint yet? Right now I got that joint as my album of the month!

[@BandsMaysTVCEO]

@@BSideRapReviews I can definitely feel it. I’m going to have to peep 👀 that album. Listening to that new Big Tray Dee album 💿 its Gangsta

[@BandsMaysTVCEO]

@@BSideRapReviews I can definitely feel it. I’m going to have to peep 👀 that album. Listening to that new Big Tray Dee album 💿 its Gangsta

[@markheyliger533]

🔥

[@BSideRapReviews]

💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@universal6025]

U know its a great review when u cursing when the ads play 😂

[@vhs_goldstar]

Great step-by-step and rhyme-to-rhyme detailed review my friend

[@BandsMaysTVCEO]

Oh yeah it’s on the page!

[@BSideRapReviews]

Preciate the love bro! 💪🏾

[@garydohe]

Youre crazy slick ricks verse is the best on the album u trippin. Check how innovative that rhyme scheme is

[@BSideRapReviews]

I aint gon hold you.....this might be the worst take I've seen since I started this channel 😂😂 If you want to defend it and say it wasn't that bad that's one thing - but to say its best on the album is absurd

[@jujucarl28]

😅😂

[@rileycarroll9420]

Domo gotta be one of the more under appreciated artists in rap fs

[@BSideRapReviews]

Big facts!! I do like that No Idols been getting a lil bit of love since it got put on streaming. But yeah man, dude dumb underrated...for sure the most underrated out of all the cats who came from Odd Future

[@24k-n6x]

I LOVED the Cee Lo track!

[@phillfresh2451]

Seriously. C dropped mad style and versatility as well as Slick Rick. Dudes review is high level mid view - real recognize real this dude need to go hump on Drake.

[@rudrar238]

Slick Rick's verse on Premier's Hip Hop 50 ep was dope to me, this was disappointing

[@rudrar238]

I said this before hearing that ice cube verse, that was incredibly disappointing. I feel like I've heard a good Ice Cube verse or 2 in the last few years, but that was bad

[@tier1co425]

Didn't mention the Benny shot on the freddie track ?

[@BSideRapReviews]

You talking bout the chain snatching and getting jumped lines? Not that I disliked the bar or anything but they done talked about it enough that I didn't think it was anything noteworthy lol

[@tier1co425]

@@BSideRapReviews yeah word

[@Doctor_Beats]

Doom Genesis wins “most improved” from the Odd Future camp by a huge margin. Him and Evidence have a sick project relatively recently and that No Idols tape that just got put on streaming got a lot of plays from me when it dropped

[@BSideRapReviews]

Big ole facts - matter fact I didn't even take him as a real rapper while in the group...I kinda lumped him in the same category as like Jasper and Taco. Big facts, and also Consecutive Normal Punches one of my fav songs to come from an Odd Future member. I will say tho - part of his issue is he doesn't drop enough. Not that Tyler and Earl drop much more (and def not frank lmao) but they obviously got a big enough following for it not to matter

[@ace1insuburbia2100]

U wrong on Jokers wild

[@quinndavis]

You’ve never heard Goodie Mobb??! Wow.

[@JayDaVinci617]

That dump on em reaction was priceless 😂😂😂😂😂

[@reptsta]

This foo need to go back and listen to Migos clueless on what hip hop is even if it hit him in his ear SMDH

[@ace1insuburbia2100]

B-Real verse was fiya for him i was like cheering for him however Ren and Cube was blah so was Rick u was still wrong on the Ceelo Joint 😅😅😅😅

[@TalkNiceToMe]

That domo and evidence track gave me that alchemist feel.

[@alchingazoprods1]

Review is on point. I have some disagreements but overall I agree. Slick Rick verse was dope in my opinion and also Scarface. CeeLo joint is def a big miss. I love MC Ren and Cypress but you were right. B Real is not the lyricist he used to be and Cube and Ren sounded so fucking rusty/corny and they're definitely out of shape lyrically. It seems like a fan service or just tryna make a big fuzz about the big names on that song. MC Ren song with Cypress from 20 years ago was dope... Southland Killers... this one not so much. Muggs for the very most part is fucking flawless. His body of work in the last 5 years to me is even better than his work with Cypress Hill... Master of the dark sound.

[@brvalentine1]

You funny as hell when you made the Ceelo Green face. Last time I didn't mind his voice was when he sang for DOOM on Benzie Box. Roc is today's Rakim. Gibbs got crazy bars but I can't stand his ass. He ever come to Philly a dumb ass 46 yr old with a similar look as me will have to really show restraint not to track him down and tee off on him. Why? Reasons are so embarrassingly stupid I won't even mention. On another note...... I was doing Uber overnight and picked up a Jamaican lady from work at Children's Hospital. While playing Sundial album, this lady actually said "this music is horrible". If we weren't on the expressway I may have kicked her ass out. I downloaded that album to give my women passengers a good woman emcee making some beautiful art to enjoy and she just dissed that jawn. She might had preferred that coochie art and for some reason she offended me so I just turned her speakers off and still enjoyed Noname from up front.......Back to this project man you gotta give my rap idols a break even though I agree. You are so funny and right but it hurts to hear. All in all if I like an album I download it and I'm still not sure if I'm downloading this. Great job once again.

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lol man I was confused dawg! I don’t really mind GSU voice at all when he actually singing - the song here was some bs lol. Lmao give Freddie a break dawg 😂😂 im forreal tryna hear the reason tho lol! And i like the Roc rakim comparison. What rakim was doing in his era was so groundbreaking. Now I will say, rakim literally had no one on his level imo and I think there’s a couple rappers on same level as Roc (like Mach Hommy, ransom, ka) but no one can do it exactly like Roc. Dudes one of my favs. Lmaoooo ay if is she was older, it might not have been that it was noname. For some of the older ladies, you can be rapping about Jesus but in their mind they rapping bout drugs and killing people 😂 If she was young tho yeah she might just be lost lol. Bruh I feel you but I HATE when rappers be messing up they legacy lol! Preciate you tapping in dawg 💪🏾 salute!

[@brvalentine1]

@@BSideRapReviews Rakim settled the flow down from yelling and added the multi syllables but Kane and G Rap definitely was doing the same thing. Even LL was doing multis but he was a yeller. KRS to a lesser degree. But to your point Rakim was doing it in 86/87 and it felt like a higher elite level. If you even looked at Moe Dee and Caz they were on another level than everyone else in the early to mid 80s but Rakim lyricism as a whole was so revolutionary. It's others technically sound as Roc but he took what DOOM and Sean Price did a little earlier added his fly shit to it and carved a lane for himself that those who followed him live in now. I think underground had a backpack stigma until Roc was adding lyricism to that fly street talk. Now you can't just be no coke or street rapper without lyricism if you want the underground and independent scene to take you seriously and I think Roc is a big part of that.

[@indigovindictive2097]

ngl if i had to rank this, then its going next to won't he do it because i literally feel the same about both albums

[@mikemr..3602]

WoW

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lol is this a good wow or a bad wow?

[@mikemr..3602]

@@BSideRapReviews 😞

[@brianmarquet2602]

Muggs is my favorite of all time - this project in my opinion lacks the two beats that absolutely blow your mind . Still it’s a vibe

[@pedrogutz3253]

Ive been waiting for Soul Assassins Chapter 1 reaction. All reactors are sleeping on that first Album

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lol it’s cus one is new and one is 25 years old

[@pedrogutz3253]

@@BSideRapReviews I know. Just thought it would be a great way to look at how far ahead of time that album was.

[@BSideRapReviews]

@@pedrogutz3253 true true yeah only a handful of reactors even reacting to muggs period. For me me personally, I think my reaction style more suited for modern albums with modern lyricism (even tho joints like that paved the way) so I probably won’t get into that one but hopefully someone gets to it

[@MIAMI305LIVE]

You missed it on that cee-lo track….. we okay that shit track……

[@thetigerdenpodcast4381]

agree on everything except that Cee-lo track... that song is fire. great vid though.

[@wickedNwoozy]

i think P Worthy is Armenian or something ahah

[@Tym16]

Slick Rick still got it, he almost bodied Wayne on the Primo 50 EP, but yeah his verse w Method Man wasnt it. This album was aight, not as good as that Mayhem Lauren/Muggs/Madlib LP, but the tracks that work - work. That CeeLo track def should have been left out and I like Ceelo.

[@dotwav88]

This short film was creative but poorly executed. It was all over the place. They shoved everything into a half hour film with a full soundtrack.

[@mikeysavage7575]

Lol 😅 hit n misses for sure. Wb that KXNG CROOKED n Joel ep

[@phillfresh2451]

Bruh your confidence clownin some quality bars speaks volumes that your a minimal millennial with not much to say and you don’t know creative/abstract underground sound fluid music, Period. Go review whoever is the top chart

[@nkosigore8836]

I thought this whole album was TRASH!!!!

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lmao yo I don't like album but I gotta defend it for at least having a few tracks lol. That roc and Crime joint is straight heat!

[@nkosigore8836]

@BSideRapReviews Roc had a mean verse that's about it, Cube in my top 5 but that verse was some ABC shit, Face verse still sound like the Diary and don't let me get on Cee-lo he is one of my favorite Artist PERIOD but he was doing some ke lo taco bell impersonation shit and it's crazy cuz he usually be rapping his ass off

[@2Thessalonians1_7]

Yeah, that CeeLo song was trash. I was confused like you, when I thought he was Mexican...smh it's ok if people think Muggs is Latino hahaha

[@BSideRapReviews]

Lmao yo I aint expect much when I saw Ceelo as a feature but they somehow managed to disappoint despite my low expectations smh! Muggs latino by association since the other Cypress Hill members are 😂

[@2Thessalonians1_7]

@@BSideRapReviews man I listened to the Scarface feature again. You big trippin', bro. That verse was 🔥