The intro track of Philly Black’s Code Red: Therapeutic Intervention features perhaps one of the most iconic speeches in movie history: the “You Can’t Handle the Truth” speech from A Few Good Men breaks out over a freshly familiar beat, which gives rhythm to Jack Nicholson’s patter. The track serves multiple purposes. It establishes a heavy reverence for the songs to follow, it lays out Philly Black’s history as an Infantry soldier in the United States Army, and it informs the listener that what is about to follow is, without a doubt, the truth. Philly Black’s story unrolls across Code Red, giving insight into the man behind the rhymes. On “You Must Learn,” he talks about “living the art of war,” and coming up on streets filled with gats and cats slinging crack. On “Days I Walk,” a sample sings “I walk alone, alone, alone, alone.” Black joins in, saying “Nobody understands the difficulties of life, the demons I’m battling every day that I’m ...