The Sweetest of It All, MaLLy’s latest full-length offering and collaboration produced entirely by Last Word is a 14 track opus of personal and breezy expressions over a lush, colorful and futuristic-soul soundscape from the 70’s and 80’s with a light touch of boom bap nostalgia. Throughout the album, MaLLy calmly explores and identifies the layers of his humanity through the lens of joy, resilience, and equanimity. The south Minneapolis rapper confidently champions true liberation, his Blackness and sobriety as some of the Sweetest elements that the Creator has gifted him in this life. Miraculously, the album was birthed and completed worlds apart with MaLLy recording in Minneapolis while Last Word tirelessly sampled and chopped an array of audio textures from his new home in New Zealand. Although on opposite sides of the earth, both artists remained creative, reconnected on The Travelers Tour w/ Brother Ali in 2022 and collectively vowed to create an album that had its own sound, followed no trends and embodied the essence of wholeness like so many Hip-Hop classics that shaped their lives. From start to finish, the duo fearlessly tap into new territory and design a space that is much lighter, expansive and uplifting than their gritty and experimental collection from 2014, The Colors… more credits releases October 15, 2024 Written by MaLLy Produced by Last Word Additional Instrumentation by Jeremy Ylvisaker on tracks New Year, New Wave, Summers on The Southside, Bigger Peace and Freetime Mixed by Medium Zach Mastered by Alec Ness Artwork & Layout by Keith Williams
