AOTY #2: Denzel Curry - 13LOOD 1N + 13LOOD OUT MIXX [2020]

Welcome to my Album of the Year highlights! I’ll give you a little run down with a brief history to start, show you the tracklist (with the tracks in bold being my favorites) with all of the featured guests (if any), give you some descriptors that might make you more inclined to check it out, and I’ll provide links to stream/buy the project down at the bottom. Enjoy!

This one is going to be an unexpected one for a lot of y’all. In fact, I’m willing to bet a decent amount of you (who haven’t seen my Write-Up involving this project) don’t even know that this shit came out. IN FACT, I’m not even sure if Denzel himself remembers dropping this shit, because this little MIXX was dropped right at the very beginning of the year, almost exactly a year ago, with little to no fanfare whatsoever, seemingly an afterthought for the artist to get off his chest before he dropped the infinitely more publicized UNLOCKED with Kenny Beats a month later. Clocking in at a mind-blowing 13 minutes, Denzel gives us what is essentially an enormous song full of different movements, features, and beats, starting the aggression immediately and not letting up for a second, just accelerating constantly until the end-wall of the album slams you in the face. Each “track” transitions into the next seamlessly and expertly, feeling so well-constructed and purposeful to rival the forethought of full albums from some other artists. This little project is #2 because it is so easy to leave this shit on repeat for hours at a time and not realize how much fun you’re having, one of the only truly flawless projects I’ve heard. Loud, banging, truck-rattling, distorted, demonic, and overblown Memphis-inspired trap/metal, straight from the pits of Denzel’s ever-creative mind: get onto YouTube and give this astounding project a listen.

Tracklist

1. XX - INTRO - XX

2. XX - CHARLIE SHEEN - XX (Feat. Ghostmane)

3. XX - EVIL TWIN - XX (Feat. Zillakami)

4. XX - WELCOME TO THE FUTURE - XX (Feat. Xavier Wulf)

5. XX - FALSE GODS FREESTYLE - XX

6. XX - PXSH6XD SHXT - XX

7. XX - NO PEN NO PAD - XX

8. XX - GOGETA - XX (Feat. AK the Savior)

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Recommended if you like:

Three Six Mafia, Industrial Hip-Hop, BONES, distorted bass, XXXTENTACION, short projects, $UICIDEBOYS$, Metal, Scxrlord, clever lyrics, Rage Against The Machine, super aggressive deliveries

Here’s my original write-up of 13LOOD 1N + 13LOOD OUT MIXX:

Denzel Curry - 13LOOD 1N + 13LOOD OUT MIXX [2020]

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