Wild Bill & KNDRX - The Wet Banditz (EP)

The holidays are here, and one thing to help put everyone in the Christmas spirit is music. Now I’ll spin the hip-hop classics around my crib like “Ghostface X-Mas,” “Ballin on Christmas,” and “St Brick Intro,” hell, I ain’t opposed to playing the Mariah song we all know and love. Still, this year I needed some new shit, that Grimey shit, that shit that will have me kicking down doors, breaking up inside somebody's home, and cannonballing into the decorated tree while taking all of the presents like I’m the grinch, also can’t forget to get everything in the fridge but the milk and cookies. This brings me to KNDRX & Wild Bill’s latest EP, “The Wet Banditz,” which makes me want to do all that and more. The project is titled after the notorious calling card of Harry & Marv from the Home Alone series, and unlike the pesky thieves, KNDRX & Wild Bill get away with the loot and behold the legend to tell the tale is upon us. Taking position primary behind the boards for the project, KNDRX is cooking up a tasty recipe of kicks and drums that is hitting harder than any pound of tamales are this season. Following him to feast is Wild Bill, whose feeding frenzy appetite is monstrous as he picks apart the competition from his teeth. At the same time, rapping laps around the remaining prey before he devours it with ease throughout this tape.

Accompanying the two diabolical emcees in the intro record “Wise Guys” is Kam KT, who opens up a seat at the table and begins to do his own chopping at the beat but not before Wild Bill goes off in tangent of prominent raps to show how larger than the life he is when it comes to the rhyming abilities. All his moves are deliberate when maximizing his full efforts to inject hard lines of raps in your equilibrium; he doesn’t ease the pressure slowly but pounds it through your skull cap to ensure you understand that there isn’t a harder rapper than him. Kam K picks up where Will Bill left off and moves the chains further, showing that combined, there more lethal; even having a short verse, he still packs enough punch to knock down an army kneeling at both their feet. This EP would be our proper introduction to Wild Bill’s talent, which we got to say made us instant fans; he doesn’t hold back anything when he gets to spitting venomous lines, and his boast energy is placed well with the punchlines and wordplays he leaves making him the big dog on the block like “Deebo.” The credits roll off the mafia flick for “December 18,” and the record begins with Wild Bill introducing that the villains got away with the jewelry in the bags & the cash in the truck. Not every story means for the good guy to have a happy ending. Sometimes the bad guys do, and in this record, they write it off and send it out in their director’s cut. I expected we wouldn’t hear KNDRX stay quiet for long; he gets masked up and starts waving the tooly around, asking everyone to hit the deck before he starts dumping. His pedigree to never the sucka shit slide is in full effect as he goes off seeing the fake try to move in his territory. Still, their plans are foiled when they try showing up to see if they get the victory over their heads up. Instead, they meet their maker quickly and have to deal with KNDRX’s wrath to put them back in their places. The last track, “Comfort Suites,” got them burning any evidence of their night, leaving them with clarity to go over the score while giving them a hideout for the night. Their past memories clash with their present stature; they attempt to bask in the glory of seizing more than the average person could bare, and still, they know it’s not enough, so they get to planning for next year while seizing to make it a more significant grab than last.

A new day is ahead of the two, and they got a lot of loot to burn through. They wrote their own story and cashed in at the right time, making it another grand scheme in their successful catalogs. An excellent tape for a hip-hop connoisseur like myself that I’m sure many more will follow suit in enjoying during the holiday season.