“A couple Christmases in February — I swear that struggle made me legendary. can’t let it get hereditary. Then everything became secondary. put the family first — the family’s distant cuz the family hurts”.- Rick Hyde

Right off the bat, Rick’s intro prepares the listener for truth and pain they are about to receive. By the time the first track. “Gods Timing” hits, you’re no longer a listener—you’re a witness. Short in length but not in weight, feels like a confessional booth built from cinder blocks and blunt smoke. Rick doesn’t waste a second sugarcoating. From the opening bars, he positions himself as a voice sharpened by silence, cut from the kind of cloth most never even see, let alone wear. In Plain Sight is a statement: everything you needed to know was right in front of you the whole time—you just weren’t listening.

“Hass Almihdi, Myles, Faceless, ISL, Tony Choc, & PlamTreeGhost drive the Production.

The beats across the project feel deliberate and dusty, like they were dug up from beneath the floorboards of an old jazz bar in Buffalo. Hyde thrives in these sonic spaces—no-frills loops, soul-inflected samples, and drums that echo like gunshots in an alleyway. There’s no overproduction here. Just enough canvas for Rick to paint his scars. Lines like “A couple Christmases in February — I swear that struggle made me legendary” aren’t just quotable—they’re memorable. Hyde has always had a pen dipped in pain, but here, it’s refined. He raps like someone who’s no longer proving himself to the streets, but rather to his past, his people, and maybe even himself. There’s an undercurrent of healing throughout the project, even as he speaks on betrayal, distance, and legacy.

The EP is steeped in themes of fractured family ties, generational curses, and the internal war between love and survival. It’s less about flashy metaphors and more about lived experience. Rick isn’t chasing charts—he’s chasing clarity. And that makes the EP all the more potent.

Our Final Thoughts.

This isn’t background music—it’s backdrop music. The kind that plays while life is really happening. Rick doesn’t just show you his world—he makes you sit in it. In Plain Sight is both a declaration and a dare: look closer, listen deeper. You’ll find everything you need.

7.5/10

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