Dear Reader, not long ago we at the NoJumper team had the distinct honor and pleasure of reviewing last year’s transmission from the great Khalil Nova, 808s Of Death. Today, after much negotiating and possibly getting involved in a plot to destroy several governments, we have the distinct honor and pleasure of debuting Khalil’s new project, the much-hyped Tha Black Layne Stayley. It should be said that this project contains music which might startle the average ‘Hip-Hop head’: its maker is a man with memories of the future. (Not the Freebandz kind.) Join us as we return to find our young antihero fighting his way through the digital haze which that music has trapped him in. As usual, we are in a dark place lit by neon-Neo-Geo hellish soundscapes, and only one of the brightest and most enigmatic young minds in rap as our guide. Certainly a wonderful way to proceed into a present filled with rumours of war, paranoia and threat of apocalypse.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Khalil Nova is Tha Black Layne Staley