Album Highlight: BUSHMAN BODEGA
By Daniel Son x Futurewave
A 2024 album by Canada’s own duo of coveted underground rapper Daniel Son and producer Futurewave. It’s one of the many instalments from the duo, this project in particular feels polished and sounds complete. With signature hard hitting grimey samples and heavy drums, Futurewave knows how to build the right sound and atmosphere to complement Daniel Son’s aggressive, punchline heavy performance.
The album has a total of 5 features, consisting of other well-respected underground rappers and former collaborators of the duo. The features consist of Estee Nack, Rome Streetz, Al.Divino, and fellow Canadians 36 Cypher & Raz Fresco.
The album starts of with eery synth-like sounds on “Symbiote suit”, which perfectly works as the intro to the album. Then transitioning into a grimey piano loop with heavy drums for one of the early highlights on the album in “Stone Cold”. Flowing nicely over the boom-bap sounds of Futurewave,
Daniel Son hits you with a line like: “Call the bucket king of rock, you'd think that Elvis had risen”. Keeping his style close to home while rapping about the drug dealing life, we’ve come to expect from him.
After a great collaboration between Daniel Son and Estee Nack on “Line Busy”, the album flows into the pre-released single “No Man’s Land”. With the deepest grimiest bass you can imagine, Futurewave comes through with another eery and almost spooky piano sample. Daniel Son delivers another great hook while flowing effortlessly through his verses with too many quotables to pick from.
“Musashi”, the next song on the album, Futurewave continues the eery theme with an arguably even better performance from Daniel Son who flows flawlessly.
With clever lines like: “Lost their life to syringes, that shit drag ‘em to hell. Brought ‘em back to life hit ‘em with that Lazarus spell”
The album continues with features from 36 Cypher, Rome Streetz and Raz Fresco. After these songs, “Seymour Stems” is next. During this run it diverts a little from the overall boom-bap feel of the project with a drumless beat from Futurewave, even without the percussion, Daniel Son finds his footing with a nice flow and great delivery. Next up, jumping right back into a nice solo performance on “Cleaning staff” with more grimey sounds and a vocal chop beat from Futurewave.
Transitioning into a more aggressive sound on "Booger Sugar" Ft. Al.Divino.
Divino stands out not only cause of his crazy raspy signature voice, but also his unique and hard to copy delivery leaving his mark on the back end of the album. "Owe Loot" the second to last song on the project which includes a music video. Over a jazzy piano sample from Futurewave, Daniel Son keeps the energy high and quality high with even more quotables like: "We manouvering, slice 'em real thin we charcutering."
This album is one of my favourites from the extensive catalogue of Daniel Son x Futurewave collabs, with amazing beats and a crazy rap performance. Futurewave does what he does best at delivering hard hitting boom-bap beats, while Daniel Son does some heavy lifting with funny and clever bars. Son never steers too far from what he’s loved for. This album also shines because Daniel Son keeps lyrics close to home. You can tell he’s been spending a lot of time in the Canadian Jungle, referencing the drug dealing life combined with his love for fishing and boats. The album feels very personal at times because of this.
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