The word “classic” is often thrown around loosely, so much so that it has often lost its meaning. However, It seems as though we are at a cataclysmic shift as Covid -19 continues to ravage the world both economically and literally. Fuze The Mc felt as though this was the perfect time to release a masterpiece. His new project This Really Happened has beats, lyrics, and A-List appearances like Common , J.Cole, Lil B and more.
Fuze The Mc opens the stage with “That Wave That Fire”, a retrospective rap about his life, the state of media coverage in our community, and how it affects safety, mental health more. In an impressive poetic rhyme scheme he states “give us maps to our caskets, thugs and goons how the cast us, cut it into a package and sell it off to the masses, impacting our branding, in tandem with all the taxes.” Nevertheless he ends it on a positive note, with an emotional elder speaking of hope and pointing out that all of the trials and tribulations we went through were not in vain.
Fuze The Mc went completely left with his song Gimmi The Loot, a playful and ridiculously catchy anthem with a drop back to trump checks. By the 3rd track the celebrity appearances start to roll in. Fuze’s uses voices from Chicago Native Common and a rare appearance from the groundbreaking instrument Electrospit piloted by none other than the talkbox player Bosko himself. Speaking rare, the next track features Lil B with a surprisingly poignant and uplifting verse about overcoming adversity. But it’s Harmony, where Fuze The Mc delivers his see-right-through you bars about what it means to be accepted in society and the costs that it can have on your creativity and soul.
There’s also an undocumented special guest at the end of the track who happens to be the legend J.Cole that helps tie together the love and identity theme throughout the album. He follows J.Cole with the most aggressive track on the album backed with vivid imagery and extended metaphors. “I heard that his dissed me , I’m out the loop/ I’m all ears , like ring with the hop/ but if he want to hang, I brought a noose/ they say I pull strings well this is the proof”.
In true classic album fashion, no two songs sound alike. The follow up song Get Loose has jazz and house influences, but the bounce and step of an album like American Gangster by Jay-Z. Much like Hov, Fuze has the ability to make even complex rhymes schemes and bars sound like regular conversation which is evident in songs like Love Again. Fuze catches up on his life thus far as both rapper and digital strategist behind some of the biggest artists like Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Jill Scott and more. He breaks down the pull between being a music industry mogul and being a rapper. 9th Wonder caps this one off with a track sure to light a fire under any artist listening. Fuze the MC tapped into another gear with this album and you can tell he dug deep, called in favors, and produced a great work of art. If you haven’t checked it out yet you can listen here.