if there is a replacement, fuck yeah Mastamind would be perfect. TheMindzi is a perfect flawless album in my opinion, one of those rare gems in hip hop that you can listen to from start to finish with out wanting to skip any bullshit, and of course he always kicked the wicket shit in NATAS, it would be interesting to hear him with SV

but... I'm fuckin' cool with Soopa Villainz being just Esham, Shaggy and J like it was back in the day... even just the E & J tracks are fucking golden... either way I can't wait to hear the new shit... Slow Your Roll and I Shot the DJ are my favorite Villainz songs, always bump that shit... and shaggy is Dope as Mr. Club... I loved Mr. Spade's militant black panther style too, that shit is dope...

J was fucking sicc on the Silence of the Hams song haha... there's definitely some Dark Carnival magic happening when E and J get together

Once again I'm excited for the potential of what an SV album could be...pretty much all those SV tracks leading up to Furious were awesome and it sucked that Furious was overall a let down for me too.

But there was still plenty of gold in there as well for me. List of Demands, Pussy, Mr Club, Hook Up The Cut & Black Plague.

I didn't hate the Card theme but I also wouldn't miss it or wouldn't be pissed if they brought it back either.

I don't know what I want from this album, I guess I'm just looking forward to potentially some more of that E & J magic if they can catch it again...

I loved all the tracks they did on The Shining more than anything on Furious so if they come up with more of that shit, I'll be pre-ordering that shit with the quickness!

There were a few things about the project that didn't work for me. The card suits felt kinda lame and tacked on. The comic book style illustrations were terrible, idk if Shaggy did them or what, but that was a blown opportunity. And most of all, Lavel, I didn't like any of his raps and I hated his "I fuck bitches, I hate faggots!" gimmick, sooooooo lame and retrograde. Esham's black power dude in a group with two white guys also made no fucking sense, but whatever, Esham's dope hoe.

Anyway I hope it's just ICP and E, just as the group was first announced back on Shangri-La, adding Lavel to the record was a very Lotus/Marz-style move. If they make new music, cool, if they just perform Furious at GOTJ every year or two, that's cool too. I loved when E was on Psychopathic b/c you could actually find his CDs in stores (not really as relevant anymore) and because he was making tons of music with J and everybody else, e.g. he was all over PFOS2 and it was great. I get the impression he's not going to sign with PSY again, which is fine, but I'm glad they're back on good terms (for now), touring together, making music together, etc.

tl;dr

Mastamind would be cool. 

E and J by themselves would be better.

Silence of the Hams was my favorite track by them. Js flow goes buck wild.

Psy. & E will most likely come with an entirely/generally new style for the new SV project tho..

i havent liked an esham project since flytrap & fuqerrbdy..

i didnt really like either SV project, so im not not lookin forward to a new one..

a new esham project on psy would get me hype tho..

I've heard his releases since he got sober [Dichotomy, Scribble, Dead Of Winter] and he's been slowly heading back to the acid rap style people remember him more and more for. And you can hear he actually gives a damn for the first time in about a decade or so.

I'm looking forward to seeing what drops from this SV reunion. If Lavel's all in then awesome. There's one more huge event for ICP before Hallowicked to drop more flavor [Starrcast in Chicago during #AllIn weekend] on this or other big announcements so we'll just have to wait and see. If Lavel ain't in, I'll stick by my guns and say Mastamind would be a more than worthy candidate to join the Villainz

With Esham, everything from Boomin thru Tongues is classic (including Natas).  All those Venue fly traps, DMT sessions, Suspended Animation ect were not my taste.  Have not listened to that Scribble album yet.....but I'm assuming its pretty much the same.

Mastamind in SV would be super cool!!

that said, ive caught him live twice this year [once before a barn, once before a festival crowd], he killed it both times, and im lookin forward to catchin him again.  his gathering performance had him lookin about as motivated and into it as ive ever seen him.  

ive picked on esham before for fallin off, but truth is, i wanna see him return to his potential greatness.  if it happens that greatness comes along with him fuckin around with psychopathic for the tenth time, so much the better.  probably.  

furious was not and is not a timeless classic. 

but it is and was a fairly unique album, with its own style.  just didnt snap together like they probably thought it would.  

I know some people are excited.for.this, I'm just not one of them. 

Didnt Esham start releasing music at age 13? He was past his prime, technically, at like 25 then lol. But I still dig some of what he has released. I enjoy about as much of his newer stuff as much as I dig Twiztid's newer stuff: about 1/5 of it.

That's enough to keep my interest and excitement though.

I actually liked their album Furious when it came out. I know a pot of people didn't, but it had some bangers up on there. Esham left not long after and started all that Juggalo Holocaust nonsense but I guess no hard feelings now though. Esham is well past his prime, and in all honesty he's a disgrace to his former self. Few have stuck around to humiliate themselves in the rap game like Esham has. This album is 10 years too late, E got nothin' left to offer.