Erick Sermon whips up a Legendary pot with Iconic ingredients

I’ve been waiting for this album for YEARS now, lol. To the point where I started questioning if we would ever get it. Then, in the last couple of months, things seemed to ramp up again, and when Erick Sermon started making his rounds with press, I knew for sure—it was finally dropping. A project where one half of a dynamic duo put together a bevy of classic dynamic duos in hip-hop to create the album—you guessed it—Dynamic Duos.

Now, I say it’s classic duos, and that does take up the majority of the space here, but there are also two tracks where Erick created some fresh duos: Game & Conway the Machine on “God Mode” (a track I think I want to like more than I do, but I still like it, ha) and 38 Spesh & Erick Sermon himself on “No Gimmicks – Remix,” a producer/rapper duo which is cool. Both tracks are fun new collabs, but both left me very into the concept.

It’s hard to go wrong with the rest of the tracks—some I like more than others, but regardless, these are all legends: Redman & Method Man, M.O.P., Cypress Hill, Salt-N-Pepa, Public Enemy, Heltah Skeltah, Tha Dogg Pound, Snoop & Nate Dogg, and of course EPMD. Each group gets one track, and each track feels unique and built specifically for the duo on it. My favorite tracks here are probably “Look At Em’,” “Sidewalk Executives,” “How Do You Know,” “How Long,” “The City,” and “Back 2 the Party.”

These legendary duos are legends for a reason. Each pair brought their A-game and left everything on their respective tracks. I really loved this concept since I first heard about it, and I’d love to see a Volume 2 someday. I love bringing back legendary MCs and sprinkling in new dope duos—either real ones or created ones like Erick Sermon did here. More of this, and I’d be all in.

Standout Tracks: Sidewalk Executives, How Do You Know, How Long, Test Me & The City

Album Rating: 👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑(9/10)