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- Record Label: Backwoodz Studioz
- Release Date: Mar 13, 2026
- Summary: The debut full-length release from the collaboration between New York rapper ELUCID and producer Sebb Bash features guest appearances by billy woods, Breeze Brewin, Shabaka Hutchings, Mattie, and Estee Nack.
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- Record Label: Backwoodz Studioz
- Genre(s): Rap
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Mar 27, 2026ELUCID’s rhymes themselves are equally dense and layered, yet also effortlessly impactful. .... This is ‘I Guess U Had To Be There’s most spell-binding quality; you just want to peer deeper and deeper into it, plunging head first into its many thrilling mysteries.
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Mar 27, 2026Densely packed, I Guess U Had To Be There contains nothing superfluous and no lines wasted – just impactful verses set against Bash’s cacophonous yet cinematic compositions.
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Mar 27, 2026There is no sense of fatigue here. Alongside Sebb Bash, ELUCID sounds reinvigorated on what is essentially a more traditional Hip Hop record than Revelator—and, if I’m honest, a better one.
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Mar 27, 2026On I Guess U Had to Be There, Elucid and Bash dial back the experimentation in favor of a more controlled approach. But even in this restrained mode, they still get busy.