{"id":1549318,"date":"2026-03-06T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consequence.net\/?p=1549318"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:52:35","slug":"denzel-curry-the-scythe-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/03\/denzel-curry-the-scythe-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Curry and The Scythe Cut Through the Noise on Strictly 4 The Scythe: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denzel Curry<\/a> is one of the last remaining torchbearers of bona fide underground hip-hop, and he’s keeping the scene relevant through sheer will. We know Curry for his obsession with Memphis’ dark and shadowy corner of the music industry, brought forth by horrorcore pioneers Three 6 Mafia. Curry has gone through every individual iteration of being influenced by the collective, so it’s only natural that his next step forward is to form his own supergroup<\/a>: The Scythe.<\/p>\n

Helmed by Curry, The Scythe also includes the explosive women rappers Bktherula and TiaCorine, FERG, formerly of A$AP Mob, and Key Nyata, who first created alongside Denzel Curry in the SpaceGhostPurrp-led Raider Klan. The group’s debut project, Strictly 4 The Scythe<\/em>, is Denzel and co.’s enthusiastically-written love note to the South in all of its complicated, but transformative, glory.<\/p>\n

From Track One, minute one, it’s immediately apparent that Denzel and the squad are pulling zero punches when it comes to putting on for Southerners. This is important, because the album is only eight tracks and 30 minutes long. The Scythe wastes no time getting busy.<\/p>\n

After we’re introduced to the chorus of “The Scythe,” which doubles as a crude mission statement of the group — “N****s tryna fuck with The Scythe, you get sliced, hoe” — the first voice we hear is TiaCorine. Over insanely-hard production that would fit neatly on a ’90s Memphis jookin’ compilation video<\/a>, the South Carolina MC twists her voice to cover more ground in three bars than other artists manage in a whole song: “The swag’s off the chart, so that’s why they don’t invite me\/ Spikе Lee, come make a movie, booty, Nick at Nitе me\/ It’s beef? Come and shoot it, I don’t fuck with all that typing.”<\/p>\n