Welcome to the Splash Zone! In today's episode of Empty Crates, one of the co-hosts had some life happening, so we subbed in a special guest for the shenanigans. Phrasure brings his own elimination chamber for the best posse cuts (13:08) before getting into the special topics for today's episode... favorite Alabama projects. The guys take time to give roses to Annise Courtney's debut LP, "Rituals" (59:27), Ozu and Akil Pratt's criminally underrated "Akileez Heal" (82:42), Phrasure and Akil's "Dad Raps" (99:36) and K1NG ELJAY's project with Inkline, "Kintsugi" (115:02). It's a spotlight episode for some of the best music to come out of Alabama in the last few years, but there's way more happening here than what we can fit into a description box, so lock in and enjoy today's episode!