Snowmads
SnowMads is the eighth studio album by American hip hop group Onyx, released on November 15, 2019 via Goon MuSick.
The album is entirely produced by Snowgoons. This is not the first time the two groups have worked together. Five years prior, Snowgoons had forced Onyx to release the LP #WakeDaFucUp, which was named as one of the best hip-hop albums of 2014 by XXL. Over the course of 5 years, Onyx had collaborated several times with Snowgoons and had also performed in Europe together. SnowMads included 15 tracks and guest appearances from rappers Bumpy Knuckles, Nems, Knuckles, Quadro, Ufo Fev, SickFlo, Flee Lord and Dope D.O.D.
Critical response
In his review of the album for UndergroundHipHopBlog, Legends Will Never Die rated the album 8 out of 10 and added: "I’ve been wanting a #WAKEDAFUCUP follow-up for a while now & I’m finally glad they did it. Some of the features I could do without, but the Snowgoons‘ raw production yet again fits the duo’s cutthroat lyricism".In his review of the album for HipHopDX, Riley Wallace rated the album 3.7 out of 5 and added: "This isn’t a perfect album, but in a year that’s seen some of the genre’s most revered icons treat fans to gems worthy of their collections, Sticky and Fredro provide a polished slice of refined, hard-edged Hip Hop — the same flavor that birthed some of the game’s grimiest."
The album was chosen as "The best rap album of 2019" by the Russian website Rap.Ru, as well as "one of the best rap albums of 2019" by the editors of the Russian website HipHop4Real. The album was featured on a Russian late-night talk show Evening Urgant hosted by Ivan Urgant on Channel One, where Onyx performed their most famous hit "Slam", as well as on the Bulgarian show Шоуто на Николаос Цитиридис on bTV, where members of the group gave an interview and performed the song "Kill Da Mic".