Moments in Timelessness

HEELS HAVE EYES 2 Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Westside Gunn Though Westside Gunn’s attention these days seems largely focused on growing his 4th Rope pro wrestling brand, he can’t seem to stay away from the mic in 2025. With two new releases already under his championship belt, as well as noteworthy collabs with the likes of Doechii and JID, the auspicious arrival of  HEELS HAVE EYES 2  ensures that Griselda’s head honcho stays inextricable from the year’s rap conversation. While the kayfabe-centric series’ initial installment featured no less than WWE’s Ted DiBiase on its cover, this considerably lengthier sequel swaps in Virgil, another iconic in-ring figure whose memorable late-’80s/early ’90s storylines had him either aligned or at odds with the Million Dollar Man. Such choices reflect the world-building his fans have come to expect from him, and returning producers like Conductor Williams and Denny Laflare on deck reinforce the lineage this project plays in his wider disco...

HEELS HAVE EYES - EP Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Westside Gunn Since putting on his first Heels Have Eyes event in Philadelphia concurrent with WrestleMania XL back in April 2024, hip-hop impresario Westside Gunn has fashioned himself into a full-blown pro-wrestling promoter. That should come as no surprise to the Griselda Records faithful, who’ve followed his WWE-indebted lyricism and kayfabe-derived cover art all these years. Roughly one year later, on the eve of a much buzzed-about Las Vegas installment, he drops this EP-length release that links to his 4th Rope brand. Following the secular gospel opener “FISHSCALE FRIDAY,” he slips into Flygod mode for the rugged boom-bap reboot “EINSTEIN KITCHEN.” Stripped of the guest list that hopped into the ring on the preceding  12 , he appears to holler even louder over the choral soul of the Harry Fraud-produced “GORO.” Helmed by Denny Laflare, the piano-driven “DAVEY BOY SMITH” nods to a long-departed Hall of Famer while Gunn rattles of...

12 Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2025 Westside Gunn Much like his unending devotion for wrestling and sartorial sense of streetwear, Westside Gunn perpetually seeks to put other rappers on. For this spiritual sequel to 2022’s  Peace “Fly” God  that also technically serves as the 12th installment in his  Hermes  series, the Griselda impresario once again centers Estee Nack and Stove God Cooks, who collectively and respectively appear on seven of these 11 tracks. Their joint presence on trio cuts “BOSWELL” and the Daringer-produced “VEERT” pushes the fashionably flamboyant FLYGOD back towards coke-rap braggadocio and surrounding themes of luxury amid violence. (Even as his cohorts talk street business, he still fires off a big brag about parallel parking a Bugatti.) The duo moments shine as well, with Stove reminiscing about the recipe with Gunn on “055” and Nack mixing ugly business with filthy pleasure on “BURY ME WITH A STOVE.” A standout presence on 2024’s  Still Pray...

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