If you couldn't already tell I was a Tragedy Khadafi stan. Not to stay on dude's dick but he's easily one of the nicest to ever come out of NYC, if not the whole world. That said, his albums are continually remarkably unremarkable. Half the jawns are ill beyond measure and the other half sound like leftovers from The War Report. Inexplicably, Thug Matrix delivers where most Trag albums fail. Rather than go for a coastal sound or an album that would reach multiple audiences, Tragedy went for the rugged-est sound he could find. Look at the production credits for this album. Havoc, Alchemist, Scram Jones, Ayatollah. Admittedly, there are quite a few no-names but their productions are illin' too.
Real talk, this is easily one of the best releases of the '00's in the genre of raw NYC boom-bap. You'd be doing yourself a large disfavor by sleepin' on this one. Trust.
Not choice cuts, but rather the only cuts I could find on YouTube. So take this dopeness with a grain of salt, knowing Thug Matrix has even better shits:
No Equivalent (feat. Cormega)
Aura
Blinded By Science (feat. Havoc)
Stay Free (Feat. Littles)
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