By Connor Kropschot
Staff Writer
Flatbush Zombies, a Brooklyn based rap group, recently released their disappointing new album, “3001: A Laced Odyssey”, and it is not worth the money or time for the listen.
“3001: A Laced Odyssey” is Flatbush Zombie’s newest album featuring 12 songs filled with lyrics depicting hallucinations, depression, hard drugs, and reused beats and lyrics making this album probably one of their worsts only with a few songs that are actually bearable to listen to.
Flatbush Z/ombies a popular rap group is famous for preaching marijuana and getting high but big changes come into play in their newest album.
In “3001: A Laced Odyssey”, Flatbush Zombies adds new artists to diversify their group including Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice, and Erick “The Architect” Elliott. However, even with new artists, the songs are missing certain aspects needed to elevate them to top charts.
Throughout the album, beats are repeated multiple times, making the album seem outdated or like Flatbush Zombies are trying to improve on previous songs.
Not only does the album use the same beats from previous songs, but phrases are also reused and the lyrics throughout the album are repeated. Catchphrases that made their songs famous in the past are also featured giving the album an overall cliche feeling.
Despite the bad aspects of this album, the songs still have a very different feeling from their typical album or song. The rap group usually focuses on smoking marijuana and ingesting alcohol, their new songs take a shift into paranoia and hallucinations, a world of hard drugs filled with depression.
“3001: A Laced Odyssey”’s flaws don’t stop there with lengthy songs, but these songs bring out one of Flatbush Zombie’s biggest flaws, the slurring. Constant slurriness in lyrics often makes this rap group unpopular, but with this album even more confusion is brought into the picture.
Although the group focuses on original sounds with good lyrics and speech the songs were the best on the album and seem to be my favorite, which still doesn’t say much considering many of the other songs are not even worth listening.
“3001: A Laced Odyssey”, is not worth the time to listen with an unfinished feeling and not new, reused lyrics and beats, slurred speech, and songs about hard drugs. This album is just one to pass on.
“3001: A Laced Odyssey”, is now available for purchase as of March 11 and is available online, and on iTunes, and Spotify.
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