Vega7 the Ronin’s 3rd LP “Kawasaki Killers” Prod. by Body Bag Ben Matches Caliber of “Sleep is the Cousin” (Album Review)

Queens, New York emcee Vega7 the Ronin continuing to dominate the underground releasing his 3rd album to end the first half of 2024. Emerging after enlisting Danish beatsmith Machacha to produce his debut EP The Lead Line Wall, he would go on to land feature placement on the 5th & final installment of Ty Farris’ historic No Cosign Just Cocaine mixtape series this past February & tap in with Superior for his debut Sleep is the Cousin. It’s been 6 months since the latter & Body Bag Ben is being brought in to produce Kawasaki Killers.

“Imagine That” is this dark intro referencing WWE Hall of Famer, 7-time world champion & 7-time tag team champion The Undertaker iconically defeating fellow WWE Hall of Famer, former 3-time WWE Champion, 11-time WWE tag team champion, CWA World Tag Team Champion & TNA World Champion Mick Foley during King of the Ring VI whereas the infernal “New Jack” remembers the late 3-time ECW World Tag Team Champion & SMW Tag Team Champion of the same name.

Meanwhile on “Rage Against the Machine Gun”, we have Vega7 heinously referencing former 3-time WWE Tag Team Champions & WWE Hall of Famers The APA prior to “Ghost in the Shell” featuring Body Bag Ben himself including a reference to the late WWE Hall of Famer, former WWE Champion, 2-time WWE United States Champion, 2-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, 4-time WWE Tag Team Champion, 2-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion, 2-time ECW World Television Champion & AAA Mundial Parejas Campeon Eddie Guerrero.

“The Gray Man” brings an unsettling boom bap vibe to the table comparing himself to Walter White from my all-time favorite show Breaking Bad just before the title track includes a bar about 6-time AJPW世界タッグ王座 & WWE’s former Head of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis, who admitted almost 2 months ago that the Endeavor-owned TKO Group Holdings division’s former CEO Vince McMahon held power & control over him making dictatorial sexual demands with repercussions if they weren’t met in light of the former self-booked WWE Champion & ECW World Heavyweight Champion’s ongoing sex trafficking scandal.

To get Kawasaki Killers’ last leg rollin’, “Lion Tamer” hooks up a bloodcurdling boom bap instrumental promising he can take the best rapper you know & break his spine using the aptly named object while “Scott Summer Shades” featuring Body Bag Ben again treats treating garbage like the Earth at it’s equator. “Hip-Fire” boasts him taking the cap off the pen he writes with & magma coming out of it, but then “Harley Bandanas” talks about him making music as if it’s gateway computed.

Following a Hell-&-back journey, Vega7 turns personal experiences of pain & streetwise knowledge into elevated rhyme schemes over Ben’s impeccable production paired with an enterprising tone & flow that cuts through the fog making the listing experience from the top to the bottom a declaration leaving the listener stuck between Earth & the Afterlife musically steeping into a dystopian city where the sonic mischief are the only source of salvation in a world filled with mediocrity & force feed elitism.

Score: 9/10