By Kaleb Bronson
It’s as if an MC created an album to be played while Cartoon Networks’ Adult Swim is playing on repeat in the background of a buck wild house party, Axel Foley’s new album MØØd is notably upbeat, weird enough to make the listener curious while head-bobbing and jam-packed with cosmic beats.
Foley has created an album that is Minneapolis party music; including a track about “RoofToppin’.” The lyrical content is joshing, pliable and even includes an Urkel reference. Rhymes dance around adult party-favors (think Snoop Dogg’s “Doggystyle” references), 90s throwback flavors like a Mississippi Mud soda mix at a gas station and a few house guests to spit a few bars. Each track brings the eardrums to a new place of celebrating life through getting loose.
One of the most satisfactory tracks is “Javelin,” which truly shows Foley’s lyrical talents. The lyrics bounce between love interests, body buzzes and continues to pierce the audience with the “flows throws like a Javelin” until the next track is introduced. One of the best parts about this album is that no track needs to be skipped, it has a continuous joyous vibe and the guests that appear, such as Muja Mussiah, throw in a certain reassurance that this supported by local hip hop powerhouses.
This album makes the listener feel that everything is alright, even if life is rough at times, as track 9 says, we “Can’t Complain.” Foley is refreshing with expressing this emotion, staying happy, not political, not violent, just out to have a good time and spread his lyrical carnival for the masses. As the end of “Can’t Complain” repeatedly says, “Yes it is, what a beautiful day…”
Axel Foley’s MØØd is carousing, malleable and lyrically frolicking, he shows that it’s still fun to make a hip hop record in this day of seriousness.
https://axelfoley.bandcamp.com/album/m-d
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