C. Tangana spearheaded Agorazein’s return with the release of Milko Freestyle, proving that he still possessed the talent with the pen while summarizing the recent years of his life. The first release with the group in full arrived a little later under the name King Kong. Hopefully the preview lands as hard as the famous giant gorilla.
“King Kong” has to be read in segments. The beat, crafted by I-ACE, Royce Rolo, Danni Ble and Fabianni, stands out as one of the track’s strengths. It relies on a continuous build-up where a distorted riff grabs all the attention, yet it includes a more dreamy stretch during Sticky’s verse. However, Agorazein isn’t aiming for the future in the production; they’re presenting a refined version of what had been done years ago.
Sticky M.A. also proves to be the most interesting MC on the track, ahead of Tangana and Jerva, simply because you can’t predict what he’s going to drop. He starts off very strong: ‘AGZ is forever like a fucking herpes.’ The other two, with the exception of a few gems from El Madrileño (’15 years in the game, I’m not clean’), cling too closely to the genre’s clichés: ‘I’ve never cared whether you heard me; the media talks about legacy, a worn-out outlet,’ Jerva offers, not exactly gripping.
‘All my family up there, fucking, King Kong’ is the mantra the chorus rests on, which in turn also smells like a hackneyed move. Assuming they mean they’re up there like King Kong on the Empire State Building, it’s hard not to think about what happened to him right after climbing the building. Could they have meant Donkey Kong?
