“Let the wack rap die with the rest of these fools..”
If you’ve been keeping tally of every release Reks has put out within say, I don’t know, the last three months entire year, you’d surely have noticed the Lawrence, MA lyrical leviathan is A: completely fed up with the masses being fed with a constant stream of doo-doo music pouring out of speakers left, right and center mass; and B: his hunger to be labeled the best is palpable — you can almost hear the rumble of emptiness we all get when we’re in the need to eat, eat, eat in every new song and video he drops.
Whether he’s showing off his wicked “Jump Shots” with Buckwild, tackling the prevalence of too many black men being incarcerated (“Kites” prod. Alchemist), handing out “B*tch Slaps” with R.A. the Rugged Man or taking to the skies with his “Airplane Gang” — every new release that has been leading up to his latest album The Greatest X has a bit of something that someone will be able to grasp on and relate to.
So what exactly does it take to put out consistent burner after scathing burner? Well, he and Nottz already gave you “The Recipe” back in May, but in case you need a visual representation, Malcolm Reks takes you into the kitchen to reiterate the key points. Check out the world premiere of the video up top and peep the tracklist for the two-disc The Greatest X (aka The Greatest Unknown — which arrives on Sept. 9th — below.
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Disc 1:
1. “The Greatest Intro” (prod. The S.U.I.C.I.D.E. S.Q.U.A.D.)
2. “A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S.” (prod. Statik Selektah)
3. “Hands Up” (Wink Wink) (prod. STREETRUNNER)
4. “Jumpshots” [cuts by Statik Selektah] (prod. Buckwild)
5. “Plane Gang” f. Akrobatik, Edo G & Termanology (prod. The Audible Doctor)
6. “The Greatest” f. Jared Evan (prod. The Arcitype)
7. “Surrounded” f. Dutch Rebelle, Alias & EzDread (prod. The Arcitype)
8. “Liberation” (prod. Black Milk)
9. “Gone Baby Gone” (prod. Large Professor)
10. “The Recipe” (prod. NOTTZ)
11. “Unknown” (prod. NOTTZ)
12. “B.E.E.F.” f. N.B.S. (prod. 75 Crates)
13. “LL Cool J” (prod. The Audible Doctor)
14. “Good Women, Thot Bitches” f. Termanology (prod. Billy Loman)
15. “The Promise” (prod. Jon Glass & Vinyl Villain)
16. “Pray For Me: The Genocide Note” (prod. Statik Selektah)
17. “My Dark Skin” (Revisited) (prod. The Audible Doctor)
18. “Benjamin Button” (prod. Rain)
Disc 2:
1. “Impression, Sunrise” (prod. Moss & Pro Logic)
2, “EgoTrippen” (prod. Evidence)
3. “Bitch Slap” f. R.A. the Rugged Man (prod. The Arcitype)
4. “Kites” (prod. Alchemist)
5. “Future Kings” f. Cassius the 5th (prod. Apollo Brown)
6. “H.I.P.H.O.P.” (prod. Apollo Brown)
7. “Final Four 2” f. Ea$y Money, Planet Asia, Rasco, Reef the Lost Cauze, King Magnetic, Phat Kat & Guilty Simpson (prod. The Audible Doctor)
8. “Eye in the Sky” f. No Doz & Ripshop (prod. The Audible Doctor)
9. “Loud” f. Lucky Dice (prod. Numonics)
10. “Massachusetts” f. Mr. Fritz & Lucky Dice (prod. Numonics)
11. “Twenty4Seven3SixFive” (prod. B.C. Einstein)
12. “1980” f. Jaysaun & TriState (prod. The Audible Doctor)
13. “Cigarettes 2” f. ColdShold (prod. Relentless)
14. “Intuition” (prod. J57)
15. “Worldview” f. Supnate & Moe Pope (prod. Short Fyuz)
16. “Back Home” f. SPNDA, Bakari JB & Kay-R (prod. Short Fyuz)
17. “Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow” (prod. Hazardis Soundz)
