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Tracklist:
01. SK Anthem
02. This Thing of Ours
03. Call the Cops
04. Fired Up
05. Levels
06. Hand Grenade
07. High Energy
08. Anarchy (feat Chuck D)
09. Slippin
10. By Any Means (feat Scoop DeVille)
11. We Are the Killers
A three-year-old Elijah Blue Molina appears in his father Kid Frost’s 1990 video for “La Raza,” a Chicano rap staple Kid Frost built his career on. As Scoop DeVille, Molina went on to produce “I Wanna Rock” for Snoop and JAŸ-Z, picked up a Grammy nomination for his work on Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city (“Poetic Justice” and “The Recipe” both carry his credit), and built a résumé as the most-booked beatmaker this side of the 10 freeway. What he hadn’t taken on before This Thing of Ours was the full production slate of a proper album. The second full-length from Xzibit, B-Real, and Demrick, a trio that convened on Halloween 2013 and calls itself Serial Killers, rides on his beats alone. He also raps one of the verses, on “By Any Means,” and it’s not bad, sitting easier than some of what the headliners bring.
The title translates La Cosa Nostra directly, and the premise carries through the lyrics themselves. Xzibit and B-Real put the whole code in the title-track hook:
“This thing of ours, powerful circle of trust
Serial Killer killin’ and fuckin’ ‘em up
And we never leave evidence, or anything relevant.” https://www.shatterthestandards.com/p/album-review-this-thing-of-ours-by