And quite possibly its own kind of first. But two and a half weeks between basketball game and full-length album with closing track that cites details from that game is still amazing. I get that pre-release promotion isn't what it used to be, especially in hip-hop, that album release dates are a lot more fluid than they once were, and that technology has changed the speed of production. The Nuggets were still in the middle of their next playoff series. The album, one of a string of high-profile albums released this summer and fall by GRISELDA RECORDS, came out 19 days later, on Sept. 23, DONOVAN MITCHELL of the UTAH JAZZ and JAMAL MURRAY of the DENVER NUGGETS became the first opponents in NBA playoff history to score 50 points in the same game. Conway's cadence and the music, produced by DJ PREMIER with a MOBB DEEP sample, sell it for me the specifics of the lyrics go over my head, which is fine, I'm not the primary audience, except for the sports reference at the end of that imperfect rhyme, which I do get. The most astonishing lyric on a significant album in the year of the pandemic may be this from " NOTHIN LESS," the closing track on CONWAY THE MACHINE's FROM KING TO A GOD: "Two shooters by the door and they grippin' the thirty / That's why they both got fifty pointers like Mitchell and Murray." I should preface this by acknowledging that, while I assume the Buffalo rapper is describing two people with guns near the entrance of a local restaurant called DOCTOR BIRD (that detail is from an earlier line), I otherwise have no idea what's he's talking about.
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