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Pharoahe Monch – PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (10 year anniversary) (2LP Reissue) [WAR Media WM000110]

Pharoahe Monch is one of the most revered and influential emcees in the history of hip-hop, and 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of his fourth studio album “PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”.

In PTSD, Pharoahe Monch continues the story he began telling in his previous LP, “W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)” from 2011. The Queens emcee narrates, in both literal and metaphoric ways, about the trials and tribulations of an independent artist who is at war with the music industry and the struggle of the black male experience in America.

The concept album follows a veteran through combat experience, his return home, relationship dissolution, drug addiction, painful depression, and, finally, a triumphant but realistically rendered decision to keep living and struggling.

Guest vocals by Black Thought (The Roots), Talib Kweli (Black Star), and Denaun Porter (from D12) and production by Lee Stone, Marco Polo, Jesse West, Quelle Chris, the Stepkids, and Monch himself.

Now for the 10th anniversary of it’s release, the album is reissued on “Hellfire” vinyl (Black & orange splatter)