PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [10 Year Anniversary Edition] (2LP)

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10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION "HELLFIRE" VINYL, LIMITED TO 500 UNITS.

DESCRIPTION

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.

In 2012, during an interview with Shawn Setaro, host of the podcast The Cipher, the rapper explained the connections between the two projects, beyond their titles. “The W.A.R. album was like, I’m going to battle against the machine, I’m doing this independently. I’m putting some things out that I learned and I’m going to expose about the music industry. PTSD is the result of me doing that, where I am emotionally now. It’s similar to how someone comes back from war and is stricken by re-adjusting to a regular situation.”

Monch told MTV Hive that PTSD is “more mental, emotional and personal” because it came out of the depths of a period of depression. He also gave the internal and external factors that helped him create the album. “I was working on the title track, which took me to a point in between Internal Affairs and Desire, where I was heavily depressed. Through the waiting period, the industry period, and going through a lot emotionally. Then there was the physical [problem] with asthma. It was the worst. So I started off with that title track and my manager was like, ‘Yo, let’s really dive into that state and how you got to where you are now, and how this follows what people go through to get back to a so-called ‘normal’ situation’.”

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.

TRACKLIST

The Recollection Facility 
Time2
Losing My Mind (ft. Denaun)
Heroin Addict
Damage
Bad M.F.
The Recollection Facility Pt. 2
Rapid Eye Movement (ft. Black Thought)
Scream
SideFX (ft. Dr. Pete)
The Jungle 
Broken Again 
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
D.R.E.A.M. (ft. Talib Kweli)
The Recollection Facility Pt. 3
Eht Dnarg Noisulli (ft. The Stepkids)