i can’t fux with tempest. I didn’t like that shit one bit. But I think mike goes above and beyond making a beat. He’s a lot more involved and that’s obvious. That was my main complaint with the wraith when it dropped was mike p just wouldn’t tell joe to calm the fuck down about his own ideas, some that simply didn’t work. MEC is a good filter. 

Mike Clark?  he gonna stay with Kid Rock! he likes 2 gets paid!

I really hope they bring MEC back into the mix. Ideally it would be for full albums like they used to, but if produced a handful of tracks here and there and shared the workload with Seven, Kuma, and Mike P that’d be cool too. I truly don’t like the use of Young Wicked for the most part and find ICP’s music to be the least inspired it’s ever been in the Missing Link era. 

Here’s the thing, Young Wicked is very talented. I could never say otherwise. Psychopathic leans on him a great deal to pump out material for ICP, Hoodoo, Blahzay, and whoever else at this point. He does the music, mixing, and does a whole lot of vocals and probably a good amount of writing in general. He cranks it all out, and it does sound good. For my personal opinion, his style and sound does not at all (for the most part) bring out the best in ICP. I’ve never cared for the “trap” style or dirty south beats in any artist, so it was much to my dismay hearing “Lost” and so many songs had that style. A lot of the beats sound basically the same, I hate the use of “chopping and screwing” and the shit loads of hi hats all over the place. And he does sing quite well and I appreciate his versatility, but, ICP’s use of YW’s vocals was way over done. They always had studio help with vocals with guys like Legs Diamond and Syn, which was great, but the use of YW is just too much. Also, gotta give him props for “Lost At The Carnival”, if he produced more shit like this we’d be all up on his dick. “Flamethrower” was pretty dope too, a good combo of YW’s style and weird ICP’ness. 

But there’s just something to be said about the magic of MEC working with ICP. MEC’s musical influences seem to be way more broader ranged than YW or anyone else they’ve worked with and he’s down to get nutty as fuck. Anyone ever listened to MEC’s Shocked Rhythms & (Damn Near) Speechless albums? There is some great shit on there, very unique. I’d shit my pants for ICP to do something with his “My House Is Haunted” beat from Vol. 1. I totally understand MEC doing his thing and choosing his path of who he works with and what he wants to do with his life, but, I know we’d all dig it for him to come back into the mix. 

Aside from MEC and YW, I do think Seven, Kuma come through with some cool shit. I think we all give mad props to the beat for “Phantoms” that Seven did. Kuma has had cool stuff too, I think he did “Red Moon Howl” which has an awesome vibe for a Hallowicked (or any ICP) song. Mike P is also very talented and he’s really come up with a bunch of cool shit for ICP and Zug Izland. One beat he produced that I feel is underrated as fuck is for “The Carousel” from the MML Outtakes. Overall, if the next ICP album had a mix of MEC, Seven, Kuma, and Mike P, I’d be pretty pumped. Even better would be all MEC. 

Hypnotized Ninja said

Chevy2Dope said
I’ve never cared for the “trap” style or dirty south beats in any artist, so it was much to my dismay hearing “Lost” and so many songs had that style. A lot of the beats sound basically the same, I hate the use of “chopping and screwing” and the shit loads of hi hats all over the place

Ouch as a southern ninja that listens mainly to 90’s/early 00’s southern rap(outside of psychopathic/MNE) that stings. I was ecstatic when the KJC formed like voltron. Calling 3-6’s style “trap” I don’t get it I was listening ten plus years before that production style  got dubbed that gay ass name. 

Haha, well, there’s nothing wrong at all with enjoying that style of music. I was basically just explaining why I personally don’t care for much of YW’s production because that sort of style never did anything for me, ICP or not. 

What happened to Mike E. Clark???

What happened to Leggs Diamond?                                                                                                                                                         

it’s not the dating! It’s the sexually transmitted disease!