There's crazy access to great music these days, at times it's such an overload that albums can come and go for no reason other than there's not enough time in the day to take it all in. One of those albums..and groups in general for me..is Run The Jewels. I've always checked out their new albums, but because it's just been via streaming the albums have come and gone. I recently revisited RTJ4 and damn I've been feeling it, I'm going to have to cop the cd sooner than later so that it doesn't get lost to the digital wind (for me anyway). Most of the reason that I revisited it was because I've been catching up on season 2 of the What Happened Was podcast (Open Mike Eagle's podcast..S1 he interviewed Prince Paul for a career spanning pod series, S2 he's doing the same with El-P [the podcast is two very big thumbs up by the way]). So yeah, I was trying to figure out what to write about today and RTJ4 made the most sense..then I check my email and sene it's the 1 year anniversary from when the album dropped. The beats are hard throughout the album, rock and electronic influences, scratches, bass..just really textured but not alt rap. There are flows for days throughout the album, with some fast rapping that isn't speed rap and at all times dripping with confidence and purpose. The lyrics are socially conscious and clever, revolutionary, they're dead serious in the most accessible way. Shit, the WHOLE album is hard as.
So I was in a group chat this past week and one of the guys in the chat posted a pick of Old Dutch Crunchys Sweet Chili flavoured, then proceeded to dump on them. He described the flavouring as granular and at that time it clicked that they're Old Dutch so it's likely that it's the same sweet chili seasoning as the Arriba chips..and that the guy dumping on them was probably wrong [another guy in the chat had consumed them before and thought they were good]. So this bag of Crunchys waiting for me in the basement went from mildly interesting to heck yeah I want to try them because the Arriba version of sweet chili is bangin'. When I cracked them open they smelled super weird, I actually don't know how to describe it, haha. So yeah, the first guy who dumped on these was wrong. They're crunchy, corny, pretty decent 'sweet chili' bite (mid to mid high on the jalap heat scale) and a good granular white sugar sweetness. This is the same seasoning as Arriba's, though I don't notice the granularness as much as on the corn chips. (Crunchys are a crunchy corn stick snack [very similar to crunchy cheetos]). I don't want to out the guy that was wrong, so lets just say that 'Gordy' doesn't know what he's talking about. The only downside of these are they're pretty unhealthy and a heavy bag (290g, with 21% fat and 20% sodium per 50g). Gotta be careful when consuming straight from the bag.
The Crunchy's bag is mostly fuchsia, it's very similar to the RTJ4 album cover. Not only do they both slap, but they even look good together.
Stay hydrated,
MARC
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