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Pressed On Opaque Blue Vinyl! Edo. G & Insight Innovates deliver that raw, jazzy, and true-to-life hip-hop on their self-titled debut album. Its the culmination of decades of friendship and collaboration, birthed from childhood memories and the early days of the Boston rap scene. And with this 10-track project, both artists sound as hungry and passionate as ever while they deliver one of the years best releases to date. For Edo and Insight, that meant more than just boom-bap sounds or tight lyricism?it meant bringing everything to the table, including next-level lyricism. As Insight explains, This project is focused on punchy drums, bass, attractive melodies, and a realistic life message and story from black men in a slowly changing world. You can hear that mission statement on instant highlights Choose Your Path and It Takes Progress, with the latter serving as the albums first leak. With good reason, of course, because Insight and Edo admit that its one of their favorites from the record. In addition to featuring some of their best rhymes, it provided a way for them to not just sound off on societal issues but also offer some solutions. But Edo G. & Insight Innovates also succeeds because of the way that simultaneously pays homage to and modernizes hip-hops past. There are cultural Easter eggs and outright tributes all over the album, like the absolutely banging Set It Off (Long Live Kane), which rightly gives flowers to hip-hop legend Big Daddy Kane. The two also show love to Edos own history by reimagining his classic Da Bulldogs joint, I Got To Have It, on the standout track Unite & Lets All Get Down. As Insight says, it was part of their shared goal to make a dope hip-hop album that reflects who we are and what were about. He and Edo met that goal and then some with this release.