Jared Evan & Statik Selektah - Still Blue | Album Review, Stream

In 2013, musical jack-of-all-trades Jared Evan and Boston producer, DJ and label exec Statik Selektah came together to create Boom Bap & Blues, a collaborative debut that managed to surpass the sky-high standards set by the house favorites' previous solo features. They evidently enjoyed creating the project as much as y'all enjoyed listening to it, as they've rejoined forces for a sequel.

Still Blue packs 10 tracks' worth of the masterful beats, vocals and rhymes fans have come to expect, along with some dope surprises, like guest appearances from Dessy Hinds, Michael Christmas, Nyck Caution and Ransom.

Included are lead single "Outside," "Scene" and the Booth-acclaimed title track.

Like Darwin, Einstein and that crazy guy on the corner yelling about the apocalypse, I have a theory. A theory so ground breaking, so epic, so ingenious, that it might change the way we all look at the world. Centuries from now, when they are sacrificing goats at the feet of my statue, you will look back at today, at this article, and say, "That was the day the world changed forever."

And that theory is...

Dope music makes you better at FIFA

While I used to be a huge gamer, sadly, I just don't seem to have the time for it any more. I guess this is growing up (cue the Blink 182). Still, from time to time, I get the craving to blow some shit up or hop on the pitch and play a few games of FIFA. Today I'm in the mood for the latter.

Whenever I play FIFA I always have music playing because I love music and I don't need to hear some 13-year-old talk shit to me. Throughout all my games of FIFA I have found that nothing makes me more on point with the sticks than having a dope song or album bumpin'. If I'm not feeling the music, I'll probably give up a goal or two. If I'm feeling it, it's a god damn clinic; I'm the FIFA Pele. The better the music, the better I play, the more I win. Or at least that's my theory.

Now like any theory, the only way to prove it is to test it over and over and over because science; yeah science!. So today, for my job that I get paid for, I am going to play FIFA and listen to Jared Evan and Statik Selektah's new collab album, Still Blue. If my record at the of the day is winning, this album passes the FIFA test. I've done a gillion reviews in bad places, but what about a review in a dope place? In this case, my bedroom, with FIFA, performance enhancing(?) drugs and a new album in Still Blue.

So here's how it's going to go down, I will play one half with each track on the album on repeat. For that whole half, I will play one song and one song only. After each game, we'll do a little recap. Cool? I hope so because that's how its going down. This is my science experiment and you can't have it.

Read: I Got High, Played FIFA & Listened to Jared Evan’s Still Blue Album

DJBooth Rating - 3.5 Spins