Apollo Brown & Ras Kass Blasphemy (Red, White & Blue)

A cold sermon for warm-blooded sinners, Blasphemy pairs Ras Kass’ razor-edged theology with Apollo Brown’s sepia-toned soul loops—an album that feels like scripture rewritten in graffiti and gunpowder. Brown constructs a chapel out of dust-scratched vinyl: ironclad drums, gospel fragments, horns that sound like they’ve survived too many winters. Over that cathedral of grit, Ras Kass steps in like a rogue prophet, dismantling mythologies with scholar-level precision and West Coast snarl. His verses slice through religion, race, politics, and personal apocalypse—part history lecture, part street-corner sermon, part heretic’s prayer.

Guest appearances—Pharoahe Monch, Royce da 5’9”, Xzibit, Sean Price and more—arrive like fellow priests of the unholy pulpit, sharpening the album’s edges without stealing its center. Blasphemy isn’t built for passive listening; it demands engagement, rewinds, and maybe even a dictionary. But beneath the intellectual shrapnel is feeling, too: bruised pride, survival-mode clarity, the restless search for truth in a world addicted to lies.

This is boom-bap as moral reckoning. A dusty-fingered gospel for those who don’t trust institutions but still crave meaning. A record that questions everything yet stands solid in its craft—Detroit drums welded to L.A. lyricism, both beating against the sanctimonious and the hypocritical with equal force.

Blasphemy is not here to comfort you. It’s here to wake you up.

A1. How To Kill God
A2. H20 (feat. Pharoahe Monch, Rakaa Iriscience)
A3. Please Don't Let Me
A4. Strawberry
A5. Giraffe Pussy (feat. Royce Da 5'9, Xzibit, Bishop Lamont)
A6. Deliver Us From Evil
B1. Too Much of a Good Thing (feat. Ina)
B2. Animal Sacrifice
B3. Humble Pi
B4. 48 Laws Pt 1
B5. Drink Irish (feat. Slaine, Sick Jacken, Sean Price)
B6. Bon Voyage