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That means it has more in common with his Atlanta brethren than the hard-hitting, emotionally and intellectually charged rap Los Angeles has been steadily exporting since the rise of TDE.Īdded bonus: Drake’s verse is mercifully short. It’s dumb and fun, and it makes you want to move. Sometimes you just want to get weird to some neon keys and trap-clap beats, you know? While everyone else around him is woke and conscious and thinking about how to address society’s ills, he’s outchea hitting the blunt and dancing to Kraftwerk. YG is making the West Coast party rap I can get behind. His style is both unique and universal, and he is obviously a fusion of all your favorite southern rappers. I seriously have not heard a weak track from him yet. Isaiah Rashad is definitely carrying the torch for, well, pretty much everybody. Like 100% of this kid’s work, it’s somewhere between good-as-fuck and amazing. But credit where’s it’s due: The chorus is pretty dope too. This beat is so great even “two of rap’s premier word swallowers” can’t ruin it. I have no idea how French Montana got his hands on this beat, but good Lord, this is the shit you listen to as you walk away from a Medellin gun fight in slow motion after murdering your connect because you’ve finally decided to cut out the middle man. Good decision, by the way, because that overhead is a bitch, and you’ve been listening to some Tony Robbins audiobooks on business, so you got it from here. If this isn’t exactly the thing that hip-hop culture needed to do to galvanize its devotees in the wake of November 8, I can’t imagine what something better would sound like.įrench Montana ft. From there, over a searing, boom-bap soundtrack, there’s a sense that develops that a Afro-Caribbean derived spirit that’s welcoming of black folks, Mexicans, poor folks, Muslims, gays, and other “bad folks” need to take over the nation. Q-Tip and Phife Dawg (R.I.P.) are magnificent here, not wasting any motion in coming hard at Kendrick Lamar’s throne as rap’s sociopolitical leader-as-essence.

In a year where post-factual America stole the headlines (and the election, too?), A Tribe Called Quest released the …We Got It From Here single “We The People,” a song that in its first 30 seconds effectively calls for the rise of socialism against the plutocracy coursing through a segment of the nation’s metaphorical veins.

Our distinguished panel consists of Marcus Dowling, Phil R, Jose Lopez-Sanchez of Dead Curious, Clyde McGrady, Joshua Phelps, and Aaron Miller of Austin Mic Exchange.Īs an added bonus, we’re also going to run back the tapes on the saltiest, most heated burns from our beloved, in-house mad rapper. Today, we survey the landscape of 2016 to pick the best of the last twelve months. Each week, we discuss recent hip-hop tracks. Allow us to reintroduce ourselves: Our name is Rec-Room Therapy.

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