Valley Of Grace vs Osage

When it’s all said and done, ELUCID is going to go down as one of the greatest rapper/producers of all time. We know this. We also know that when it comes time to examine his career, his evolutions, his groundbreaking work, his impact, it won’t just be about the big ticket albums and high profile collaborations. To really understand Gutta as an artist, you have to get in the weeds. You have to dig into the instrumental experiments like Bernadette and Horse Latitude, the dubbed out early tapes like Police & Thieves and Smash &  Grab. You need to peep the Concrete Sound System era, and the Dumhi/Tanya Morgan collabs. Without a doubt, For Madmen Only and The Kingdom have to get some serious run somewhere in there. But if you ask us for two under-the-radar records that are essential to the ELUCID canon, we would go with 2016’s Osage and 2017’s Valley of Grace. Both projects are entirely produced by ELUCID (with the exception of “Housekeys” on Osage, produced by Ohbliv) and as such,