![]() Who says the closing chapter of a trilogy is always a letdown? Future wrapped his already-mythic comeback run of mixtapes this past March with 56 Nights, a less-than-half-hour set whose, ahem, lean run time plays like an antidote to the Frankenstein sprawl of last year’s Monster and whose twilit aura serves as a relative comedown from January’s glitzier Beast Mode. ![]() Luckily a whole other career for him is just beginning. ![]() “I’m fed up with my block ‘cause every day could be my last,” he avers. He recounts friends dodging their arraignments, pushing rentals out of state, and crooked local cops taking their drugs (“No Explanation”) in raps that are territorial in both senses of the word: “I ain’t gotta ask ‘cause you know my section rowdy / I ain’t gotta blast ‘cause you know my hood around me.” Stizz captures the feeling of being a young street disciple in a tightly knit community that you feel both indebted to and imprisoned by, and fits his tales with spacey, lurching arrangements and short hooks that rattle around in your brain. Cousin StizzĬousin Stizz’s debut mixtape, Suffolk County, is a real-time narration of the 23-year-old’s life as a small-time Boston dealer, pitching the local Suffolk County drug trade with Southern lingo in heavy cadences à la Chicago drill standouts G Herbo (f.k.a. ![]() His musical universe bigger and bouncier than any of his peers in hip-hop, guaranteed to make you feel like Mia Wallace on a bathroom break within two tracks. The pride of Hampton, Virginia plays nu-soul duet balladeer (the SZA-assisted “Caretaker”), motivational bandleader (the Donnie Trumpet-featuring “$”), and precocious pop flirt (the badass drum machine-boosted “Signals ”), all with equally giggling élan. Bringing you that GAHDAMN! in a world where all you need is that GAHDAMN!, D.R.A.M.’s second EP of 2015 made good on the promise of #1Epic and its goomba-stomping viral single “Cha Cha” with a double album’s worth of idea-bursting and genre-hopping in just nine lightly boogieing tracks.
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