Style: Hip hop, video game music
Primary Emotions/Themes: Final Fantasy VII
Thoughts: I think I want to change the way I do these summaries. They have often gotten far to long and end up becoming more of a hinderance than a boon to my writing. I'm going to endeavor to write shorter summaries of my thoughts from this point forward and see how it goes.
Black Materia is one of the first VGM adjacent albums I ever got. The whole album revolves around the core concept of hip hop utilizing music from Final Fantasy 7 while Mega Ran and his extensive list of guests provide rapped vocals on top.
With the base material being so strong, it would be hard for this album to not be at least average. Fortunately, Mega Ran pays a strong tribute to Uematsu here with the way that the samples are curated and the way the vocals are arranged. It's a great album that maybe overstays it's welcome a bit, but overall pretty good.
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