Last Friday afternoon, I received a vaguely villainous message from The Diabolical Doctor Strange AKA Solomon Strange AKA Solomon Caine. It simply read: " guerilla godz presents omega the unknown featuring ari yusef" and I was tagged along with 45-50 of his trusty Facebook Friends & Followers. It would appear as though, it breaks down a little something like this - Omega The Unknown is the EP title, Ari Yusef is the artist, and Guerilla Godz is, of course, the label/crew. Omega The Unknown consists of nearly 9 minutes-worth of untitled tracks produced by The Diabolical Doctor Strange artfully laid beneath an unknown 1980-90's Manga. Otherwise, little information is known concerning the release; although, Omega The Unknown's comic book-esque cover artwork features cryptic phrases such as, "INVINCIBLE GUARDIANS OF WORLD FREEDOM!" "THE DEATH OF THE FOLLOWERS OF LIGHT..." "THE DESTRUCTION OF SHOGUN SANCTUARY--" and "YOU DARE NOT MISS: THE LIGHT THAT FAILED!" Many of you might recognize Ari Yusef's name from Doctor Strange-penned The Witzard Presents: A Transmission from The Diabolical Doctor Strange of The Guerilla Godz Universe from late last year, wherein he's effectively referred to as one half of Ari Yuseff & Ab Soul Jah AKA The Unimaginables AKA "The Ten Elements of The Universe."


" Ari Yuseff, they say, is hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years old, but ever-growing in power and strength, due to the fact he is a [deity] and is empowered by the faith and praise of The Nuwabu," Solomon Strange explained within A Transmission from The Diabolical Doctor Strange of The Guerilla Godz Universe. Ari Yusef AKA Ari Yuseff previously appeared within the diabolical doctor strange and friends' critically acclaimed 2017 album, doctor strange and friends, as well as solomon strange's year-end street album/mixtape, The Friday Night Philosopher. Honestly, it's a bit hard to properly discern and explain exactly what's happening on Ari Yusef's Omega The Unknown, although, I will say this: it's a hard-as-nails collection of unique beats and ferocious rhymes. Yusef's vocal delivery and overall artistic presence is something similar to that of DOOM, Wu-Tang Clan, MADVILLAINY, Gravediggaz, or CZARFACE. while still remaining extremely original. The Diabolical Doctor Strange's atmospheric production work throughout Omega The Unknown is evocative of J Dilla, Madlib, "The Old Kanye," RZA, and The Alchemist; somehow, Doctor Strange even manages to effortlessly work in a sample culled from Sérgio & Mendes & Brasil '66's "Cinnamon & Clove" from their world-renown 1968 album, Equinox. For now, Omega The Unknown is "a release that might never be released" and for the foreseeable future, will remain strictly limited to Solomon Strange's Facebook page.