Summrs - What We Have (2021)

"In this b**** with a wrinkled shirt, but you know I keep a iron though" 👕🔫

I remember the first time I heard YNW Melly's Slang That Iron and how refreshing it felt. Combining R&B melodies with street blues wasn't exactly cutting edge then, but in a post-Rod Wave world it's almost old hat. PlugnB crooning reminds me of that original novelty. It found a home besides sample flips with a bigger focus on vocal engineering. It's that contrast between subject and presentation compounded by skittery bloops and glacial synths.

This isn't grating. It's not rage. It's very laid back and serene at its best- pretty even. It's a short project so Summrs easily finds enough variation with his flows and melodies to distract from his Future junior bars. However, he doesn't have the understated pop sensibility of Future. Instead, we drift along as he falls behind and catches up with his flows like an experienced drunk driver.

The vibes are there, but it's kind of shallow for the mood it captures. The substance is the substances. The smartest component is the runtime. I'd much rather run this back 2-3 times than hear a stepped on, album length version. I'd rather chase the high than come down.

EP of the decade

Oh I got plenty for u @op

sickboyrari - City Of Crows

Okay, Queef Jerky is getting a review for sure.
Which project

Artist #1: Destroy Lonely

His best loosie:

His best project:
open.spotify.com/album/3AD4AJi9Bfr4I17SKJ53hB?si=OJlU4Sc7RW6G0ZMJ6qGC9Q&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3AD4AJi9Bfr4I17SKJ53h

Talent at its most undeniable. Listen now and you'll thank yourself.

Artist #2: Izaya Tiji

Best Loosies:

Best album:

open.spotify.com/album/4Pw8LYCkKLgmIJ7Yv6Yfk5?si=tT0TECB2QNicROi0eGcqlA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4Pw8LYCkKLgmIJ7Yv6Yfk5

Although he has many more accessible ones

Artist #3: Glokk40Spaz

Best Loosie:

Best Album:
open.spotify.com/album/3x2ZDCI5fNsZRsLS7H73gq?si=Ztr_LkG0SSypHgr6gsGhnw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3x2ZDCI5fNsZRsLS7H73gq

Appreciate you @LD

New Lil shine album just dropped open.spotify.com/album/53CB696Vc8rSaerQy8ufhH?si=BE599vQRRzG5cPRnAegupA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A53CB696Vc8rSaerQy8ufhH

Queef Jerky - Queef Underground (2023)

"I wanna make you my Seth Mac-Darlin'" 🥺👉👈

Looking back, you might be able to connect Das Racist to weird Twitter or iLOVEFRiDAY to Vine/Tumblr. Sometimes a group captures a period of the internet in a very succinct way. Queef Jerky is the first group that sounds like doomscrolling. Their based freestyling and pop culture grab bag has to be plumbed from the backwaters of Discord. This is the generation of zoomers on ADHD meds whose older siblings subjected them to Adult Swim a few years too early. Just add midwest brain rot for good measure.

I usually reserve "algorithimically generated" as a pejorative for uninspired commercial art. When it comes to Spotify or Netflix, that holds. This is the first time I can use it a compliment. This is the stable diffusion vortex 100 Gecs made possible. It's the coffin birth of the internet. It's noise and nonsense and casually schizophrenic podcast riffs.

This is smoking mids and doing improv comedy over electronic music, but it's not lazy- it's just organic. The way they constantly pivot from sound to sound and repurpose off the cuff quips into polished and catchy refrains shows how capable they are. It's like when the Beastie Boys were making Rick Rubin produced frat rap. Out of the artists I've reviewed so far, I'm the most curious about their future. Is the magic in the chaos? Can they refine it and mature it? Most likely they just kind of peter out and disappear. That's the internet.

Tony shnow - love streak
lucki - flawless like me
sahbabii - do it for demon

No review yet, but this Funeral tape reminds me of Bobby Raps / Corbin. It's not as polished, but there's some real feeling in it.

@op

3 minute skit before some zoomer Drake flows

ngl lucki and sahbabii is more zillenial they’ve been around for a long while now

BBY Goyard - Loreseeker

@WRU beat you to it

Texako - Texx Vol. 2

KP Skywalka - Grandma House

Shaudy Kash - Rich Mile Ruler

Lil Xelly - Xrrtified Posse

Tony Shhnow & 10kdunkin - Rps and Plan Bs