• Apollo Brown & Ras Kass – Next Caller
    • Apollo Brown & Ras Kass – How To Kill God
    • Apollo Brown & Ras Kass – H20 (feat Pharoahe Monch & Rakaa Iriscience)
    • 1. Next Caller
    • 2. How To Kill God
    • 3. H20 (feat Pharoahe Monch & Rakaa Iriscience)
    • 4. Please Don't Go
    • 5. Strawberry
    • 6. Giraffe Pussy (feat Royce Da 5'9, Xzibit & Bishop Lamont)
    • 7. Roses (feat 4 Rax)
    • 8. Deliver Us From Evil
    • 9. Too Much Of A Good Thing (feat Larina)
    • 10. Animal Sacrifice
    • 11. Humble Pi
    • 12. 48 Laws (part 1)
    • 13. Francine
    • 14. Drink Irish (feat Slaine, Sick Jacken & Sean Price)
    • 15. Bon Voyage

    **Repress of the 2014 hip hop classic!**

    Blasphemy, the collaborative album from esteemed Mello Music Group producer Apollo Brown and Ras Kass, is a thought-provoking and highly personal treatise on the unspoken. The sub-rattling and operatic opener “How to Kill God,” a scathing indictment of major religions and the transgressions enacted in their name, serves as a statement of purpose. No “ism” is out of bounds, no topic too untoward. Whatever you hold sacred isn’t above aggressive inquiry.

    Behind the boards, Apollo Brown orchestrates with divine aural vision. Though Blasphemy is his first album with a west coast rapper, he doesn’t retread g-funk synth grooves. He also forgoes the minimal, rubbery bounce popular with the current crop of west coast talent. Amidst a sea of production crafted for the drug-addled turn up, his work is a life preserver, saving ardent hip-hop fans with hard-hitting beats made buoyant by donuts of soul and blues. On his deftly layered suites, drums hit with the force of an unabridged Bible to the dome, the samples masterfully selected and utilized. With Blasphemy, Brown has created MPC gospel, sonic scripture.

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