Las Vegas, Nevada emcee Ouija Macc finishing his 2024 with the 6th studio LP in his discography. Breaking out in the fall of 2017 after the Insane Clown Posse signed him to Psychopathic Records shortly after putting out his debut EP Trashfire independently, Ouija has since proven himself as the hatchet’s biggest solo act dropping his last 5 full-lengths, 2 greatest hits compilations, 8 mixtapes & 5 EPs all in the span of nearly 7 years. He even started his own label Chapter 17 Records & made the big homie HEXXX the first signee to putting out his first 2 classic west coast wicked shit albums Demon Season & Tales of a Cursed G before amicably fulfilling all contractual obligations with the Psychopathic subsidiary last fall. Darby O’Trill is now the only C17 artist other than Ouija, teaming up with each other back in April for the excellent collab effort Anemoia & Darcc Planet became the darccest material of his career. 3 months after Psycho Babbel though, we’re now entering the Temple of Ash.
“Bumpalation” produced by Devereaux is this nocturnal trap intro calling it back to “Murder Go Round” by reminding that y’all can’t fuck with a wicced clown whereas “Dart Pimpson” takes the Memphis route instrumentally to talk about shooting darts in muhfuckas’ necks & not wanting to see scrubs as lit as him. “7 Deadly Symptoms” gives off an eerie trap direction to the beat pleading that his religion puts an end to your condition while the energetic “Spligwitter” talks about splitting wigs by spittin’ the wicced shit.
As for “Lil Jokaro”, we have Ouija over a sample of ICP’s cover of “Assassins” by the Geto Boys off The Amazing Jeckel Brothersreassuring that he ain’t the person to be fucked with at all leading into the funky trap banger “Across da Window Sill” leaving corpses on the grill. “In da Trunk” morbidly talks about dead bodies going in the back of his ride for nearly 3 minutes, but then “Purple Wraith” heads for a hypnotic direction flexing his hatchet came with him when he died.
“Burns on Da Skin” gives off a heavily apocalyptic trap vibe advising to walk with him carrying torches since the temple’s dark as the sun while “Flashbacc” comes clean that he was buggin’ off analepsis stabbing a muhfucca with a stethoscope. “Hatchet Samurai” is a fun joint about not being like any other samurai creeping out the casket with his hatchet by his side prior to “Everything Gone” discussing that everything’s waste & we’re living in the hole.
Beginning the final leg, “Where I Stand” finds Ouija riding with the Psychopathic family since he never had any friends while “Praise 2 da Phonk” experiments with the phonk sound & putting his own wicced spin on it. “Acrylamide” welcomes everyone to the psycho side paying homage to the first ever Dark Lotus track “Echo Side” off The Amazing Jeckel Brothers during the hook & “Sir Leemy of Lone” somberly finishes up by becoming content with the voices in his head.
Capping off what’s been a huge year for the C17 CEO, he takes us through the Temple of Ash with only less than 2 weeks from Christmas & it continues to take Ouija Macc to a whole new level artistically by maintaining the caliber of his last couple LPs. The production is mostly grounded in the occult trap sound that he came up with other than some occasional phonk & Memphis rap detours laying out a well-structured concept.
Score: 9/10
