Vince Ash - Vito (Album)

On his 1st record since 2018’s “Do or Die,” “Vito” finds him breathing life into these records of his, the 2Pac, Three 6 Mafia influence bleeds over hella in his raw, street tales & testimonials, detailing the trials & tribulations of this life. It’s a darkly startling glorification of the lifestyle; it is this gritty.

We open with him preaching a sermon only for a drive-by to occur, it seems he’s trying to get out this life. Still, it keeps sucking him in so he has no choice but to play the game, a lot of guns, hoes, money, clothes, all the glitz & glamour amid the grittiness, but the grittiness overpowers the glamour.

The production is impressive as well, the four-beat switches on “Whut It G Like” are almost a 5 Fingers of Death Freestyle, the funky drop-top feels of “LMK,” the soulfully atmospheric keys on “Back n the Dayz,” the classic Three six hyphy of the title track. This is another one of those albums that’ll rattle the block, thus shatter the concrete; it doesn’t get more viciously harder than this. I can already feel the tension as if I entered a city without checking in first, major kill, or be killed vines throughout the album.