Even in the 4th quarter of 2018, the DMV creative group 3SIDE continues to grind hard with tours, singles, projects, and more to make sure the culture knows that their entire clan is coming for absolute glory or bust. Max Goof and Beggar Allan spit with such a viciousness and vigor with each and every bar on this wonderful collaboration EP like the rent was due the very day. With innovative and professional marketing strategies from 3SIDE members across the board including collective promotion, social media campaigns and even a MAD TV like skit about the two collaborators being one conjoined being, and great mixing/mastering by Onye Wolff, Jetticus Maximus already came in with a flair complimentary of the established, staple 3SIDE brand of exquisite and excellent eccentricity. Max Goof and Beggar Allan deliver with each and every track that made them stand strong amongst the quality (or lack thereof) of the influx of mainstream music this weekend.
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You would think starting the project off with your lead successful single isn’t a bright idea, but if Daniel Caesar could do it with Freudian, then Jetticus Maximus freaked it with “Jiggy.” Over lo-fi instrumentation influences, a complimentary kicking beat, and Max Goof shit-talking fantastic nonsense, the two DMV rappers trade bars back and forth to turn the oven on for the project to start to cook. While Max Goof drops off his verse with a Murray’s wavy, milky-way flow to Coast over the instrumental, Beggar Allan is the perfect paste to the opening track with his methodically dexterous verbular manipulations, his deepened tone and inner-rhymes. Max Goof also manages to interpolate rapper 6ix9ine’s music into something enjoyable and unproblematic with a reminiscent melody for the outro of the song.
With “Myztik,” it’s exactly the way as Beggar Allan starts his verse off with:
“Holy Matrimony.”
Beggar Allan flexes his rap skills that steal the show:
“Sometimes I feel like I’m Homer,
I mean like, honestly,
They couldn’t step foot on this here Odyssey”
However, Max Goof immediately follows up by delivering a top-tier verse that is probably the best verse from him that I have ever heard from start to finish. This is a hell of a statement considering his singles in 2018 and even beforehand, but this single verse rests it’s own case.
“Ball Player” displays with its melodic superiority how a collab-tape is supposed to be done in 2018, like as if the DMV versions of Platos and Socrates had made a mixtape.
“Madagascar” interpolated “Headlines” by Drake, displaying Goof’s taste in music beyond his seemingly lyrically conservative/sonic content. Beggar Allan proves how 80s/90s boombap can still prosper in 2018 and beyond. Max Goof even uses his brief time to spin a tale about the dangers of drug addiction in the DMV and beyond in an eclectic, poetically executed manner with lines like “Confused by the way that he said he was Jesus.”
“Jet Goof” continued the trends of the other songs, but included Max Goof goofing off in the underrated comedian that he is to end off the project on a chill note.
3SIDE continues to not let up in their inevitable rise to the top of DMV creative groups-and even beyond that.
Stream the project on Apple Music and SoundCloud today.
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