Ever since 2014, the hip-hop rapper duo $uicideboy$ has made a mark in the SoundCloud rapper world. Since $uicideboy$, the game has been completely transformed, and competition has been easily demolished. With over 38 albums and EPs, and hundreds of songs, they have clearly made their mark. Even collaborations with smaller artists have ended up turning them into big names, such as Germ, Ramirez, and many other names. The list is endless, and if you take the amount of years they’ve been active along with the amount of albums they have released, its safe to say they most likely won’t quit anytime soon or stop making music, and we all hope they never will. 

Regardless of this album being 6 months old, I felt as if i needed to give it a review and my honest opinion. Their newest release titled “New World Depression” has given many hints that they’ve reverted to their old ways, in not only their music but also other minor details. For example, they’ve reverted back the 2015 name styling, with some of the tracks being very long in terms of names. These songs also feature a rather depressing and humorous theme, in tracks such as “Are you Going to See the Rose in the Vase, or the Dust on the Table?” and “The Light at the End of the Tunnel for $9.99 a Month”. Before the release of the album, the duo dropped 3 songs early, with their first song being “Us Vs. Them” on May 29th. The album art was a picture of what it looks like to be president Lincoln on a dollar bill, dressed in heavy armor.

As fans kept saying that they felt as if their old style is back, they were blown away again by their second release on April 19th titled “Are you Going to See the Rose in the Vase, or the Dust on the Table?”. The cover art was very smart, with what appears to be a Airbus A320 with its left engine on fire going down with “New world depression” plastered on the fuselage side. All of this went along with the G59 skull logo on the tail, which as mentioned earlier has shown their reverting to their former long naming. Finally, the last of the 3 releases titled “The Thin Grey Line” dropped. The cover art was amazing yet again, with a newspaper and the headline titled “The Thin Grey Line”. This was released on May 24th, and was described by fans as the best out of the 3, as it reminds them of their older and more aggressive style. Then on June 14th, as promised, the album debuted with 13 tracks. Upon the release of the album, there was endless praise from fans, with it being described as having a balance of styles that appealed to fans old and new.

With a whopping 13 tracks on this album that come with lots of appeal, in my honest opinion there isn’t a single bad song on this album compared to the competitors. Straight from the opening track “Lone Wolf Hysteria”, fans feel this intense opening as it shifts over to $crims verse very flawlessly. From the start, this gave me a sense that this was going to be a good album upon listening to it for the first time. The next track on this album is “Mental Clarity is a Luxury I Can’t Afford”, which was as intense as the first, with the intro having a loud tornado siren and edgy lyrics in the beginning. The track after that was “The Thin Grey Line”, which was one of the three releases before the full album debuted, talked about earlier. After that was “Thorns”, which was more calmed down compared to the 3 songs before it, and after that was “Misery In Waking Hours”, which was another hit in this album. With the intro featuring a interview from Channel 9 covering the story of John Hughes, and the interview fading away, the song gets aggressive as it goes on and I really like some of the lyrics this song has. It feels a lot like a few of their older songs like Matte Black.

The next and most popular track on this album that wasn’t one of the three releases was Burgundy, which talks about drug addiction and mental illnesses, and the struggles they face mentally. Personally, it touches me in a way that reminded me of my past, and struggles I once faced in my life, and this was one of my most favorite songs on this album. This song was also a sample of one of their very first songs they ever made, which was a small reference for old fans. Other tracks on this album are good, but there isn’t much to say about them except the very last song. The last track on the album was their first time in 7 years adding a new addition to this series of tracks, and it is a really nice comeback. Even if it might be the last song in this series, it was a great sendoff to that series.

Long time $uicideboy$ listener and my personal friend Aidan Vankirk had some thoughts of his own to share about the album for himself. Vankirk (12) said that “It’s a really good album, but it isn’t as good as ‘Sing Me a Lullaby My Sweet Temptation’. But overall, it’s a great album”. With that being said, I can’t agree more with that. This album has truly made its mark on the hip-hop world, and has exceeded the expectations of a new $uicideboy$ album. This is by far one of their better albums they’ve made, and I’m sure there are even better things are yet to come for the New Orleans duo.