enemyX (2024)

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About The Album

enemyX is the first full-length studio album from brothers Jinx and Cryptic-X, released under their duo name enemyX. It's not a loose collection of dark songs—it's a full concept record built like a crime file: fifteen tracks documenting a serial-killing pair who share the same name, moving from the first slip into violence to the moment everything finally catches up.

The story doesn't unfold in a neat straight line either. It comes at you in flashes: paranoia, bravado, confession, rage, aftermath. One minute it's scripture-laced dread on "What I am Doing, You Do Not Understand Now, But You Will Know After This (John 13:7)", the next it's ice-cold dominance on "I Am God." Then it's straight into the red-room scenes: "Blood Magic," "Natural Born Killers," "Be Afraid".

The skits and interludes aren't filler—they're the glue. They push the narrative forward like cutaways in a film, switching locations, changing tone, tightening the noose. Sonically, it moves the same way the plot does: sometimes stripped down and claustrophobic like you're stuck in the trunk, sometimes blown wide open and violent.

The production flips between suffocating minimalism and full-impact chaos, always serving the story instead of trying to show off. The mood stays ugly on purpose, because the characters are ugly on purpose.

enemyX also brings in a heavy lineup from the underground and the Killing Field Records circle without turning into a "feature parade." Guest appearances hit from Komatose, Sugar Cones (Populus and BagHeadddd), Kid Corduroy, STOOKY, Surreal the MC, and Conway the Machine—each one placed where it actually makes sense in the album's world.

On the production side, Cryptic-X and Jinx handle the backbone, joined by Dirt Nasty Beats, Eliphas, Mackey, and Captain VIII, building a sound that stays grim, cinematic, and mean the whole way through. In the end, enemyX doesn't try to "shock" you. It just tells the story straight, then lets you sit in it.