Fresh off from the critically acclaimed Gadbad, the duo of Quest and 3BHK are back with even more venom and hunger! The rapper-producer duo with Daam Dugna/Rakam EP celebrate their success in terms of monetary, societal, and artistic wins!
While Daam Dugna is your typical anecdotal audio experience on the theme of struggle and achievement, Rakam is an unabashed and direct plea of greed, stemming from the sense of attainment!
Music
3BHK aka Abhishek Nair is one of the few producers in the scene who never fail to bring a new sound in the scene.
Daam Dugna’s beat consists of a hard bass and a spatial snare pattern, backed by an intense low-pitch flute sample helping create that eerie sense of inevitability lending credibility to Quest’s claims!
Rakam, on the other hand, starts off like a Drake-type beat with a vocal sample but there is a twist! The vocals get numb as soon as punchy bass hits with revers & low-pitched keyboard chords set with fast hi-hats infused with triplets!
The composition masterfully creates a hazy atmosphere, matching the lyrics!
Lyricism
Quest is one of those blessed voices in the scene whose cadence and ability to ride on the beat is unreal. If the Mumbai-based rapper’s rhyme scheme in Rakam is plotted on a Holter Monitor, it would certainly show how crazy the graph zig zags with the constant multis! And to do that on a chopper flow is incredible!
While Rakam was more flow-heavy, Dugna Daam was filled with quotables and top notch flow switches! Dugna Daam however lacked a quality chorus which Rakam had!
Best Bars
- Maano na maano, par aakde to maante hai, jo bhi nahi maante the, jaan pehchaan maante hai.
- Acche gharwaale par bure ladke, seedhe seedhe tujhe seedha kar de, poori fauj ghus jaaye phir tere ghar pe
- Ulte paau bhaagu toh jeet jaau yeh daud!
- Seedha seedha kaam, deta nah bahaane, kalam likhe aslivat nahi koi taraane
- Meri aukaat na thi, ab baje poora bombay city, saath me baje meri team, chahiye mujhe rakam dugni
