Apollo Brown & Ras Kass - Blasphemy [Ltd Ed Red, White & Blue Colored Vinyl]

A cold sermon for warm-blooded sinners, Blasphemy pairs Ras Kass' razor-edged theology with Apollo Brown's sepia-toned soul loops-an album that feels like scripture rewritten in graffiti and gunpowder. Brown constructs a chapel out of dust-scratched vinyl: ironclad drums, gospel fragments, horns that sound like they've survived too many winters. Over that cathedral of grit, Ras Kass steps in like a rogue prophet, dismantling mythologies with scholar-level precision and West Coast snarl. His verses slice through religion, race, politics, and personal apocalypse-part history lecture, part street-corner sermon, part heretic's prayer. Guest appearances-Pharoahe Monch, Royce da 5'9", Xzibit, Sean Price and more-arrive like fellow priests of the unholy pulpit, sharpening the album's edges without stealing it's center. Blasphemy isn't built for passive listening; it demands engagement, rewinds, and maybe even a dictionary. But beneath the intellectual shrapnel is feeling, too: bruised pride, survival-mode clarity, the restless search for truth in a world addicted to lies. This is boom-bap as moral reckoning. A dusty-fingered gospel for those who don't trust institutions but still crave meaning. A record that questions everything yet stands solid in it's craft-Detroit drums welded to L.A. lyricism, both beating against the sanctimonious and the hypocritical with equal force. Blasphemy is not here to comfort you. It's here to wake you up.

1 How to Kill God
2 H20 (Feat. Pharoahe Monch, Rakaa Iriscience)
3 Please Don't Let Me
4 Strawberry
5 Giraffe Pussy (Feat. Royce Da 5'9, Xzibit, Bishop Lamont)
6 Deliver Us from Evil
7 Too Much of a Good Thing (Feat. Ina)
8 Animal Sacrifice
9 Humble Pi
10 48 Laws PT 1
11 Drink Irish (Feat. Slaine, Sick Jacken, Sean Price)
12 Bon Voyage