In these last nine months, Young Dolph, Yo Gotti, and Blac Youngsta have respectively dropped some of the finest releases the subgenre has to offer. While much of the attention in rap today focuses on Chicago and Atlanta, Memphis has been 2016’s sleeper city for high quality trap. plenty of room to croon on the video game goonery of ‘All Points South.’ By the time closer ‘I Got The Good’ ends in a digital puddle, it’s clear that Christmas has a bright future beyond this terrific collaboration.
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He free associates with aplomb on the eerie ‘Young Vet’ and gives D.R.A.M. Indeed, the vocal half of Fudge seems unphased by the producer’s momentary innovations and attention to detail. The fractured fairy tales of their full-length debut Lady Parts will assuredly satisfy both those old Prefuse 73 fans and newer listeners who enjoy a sensible amount of weirdness in their mixes.Īs before, Herren makes his own rules about what qualifies as hip hop, applying the DSP magic to the clattering ‘Showstopper’ and virtually warping the virtual record for ‘Kids Kill.’ Airy and crackling like dub, the submersible ‘Nothing Good’ beat hits deep like sonar pulses while Christmas waxes poetic and deliberately referential with the wordplay.
For the rugged yet wondrous Fudge, he teams up with Boston indie rapper Michael Christmas, an artist whose own quirks mesh well with the producer’s left-of-center lean. That it took until now for Herren to properly return to the hip hop arena in full-length form is either a testament to his integrity or the product of good fortune. Despite logging ten years with a label known for encouraging experimentation, he’d broken with hip hop dogma and became a victim of the genre’s harsh double standards. After pivoting as far rightward into rap as he was comfortable doing on 2005’s guest-heavy Surrounded By Silence, Herren curved his fanbase and his label with eclectic electronica releases like 2011’s divisive The Only She Chapters.
Released via Warp Records under the Prefuse 73 moniker, 2001’s Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives jolted boom bap with glitchy, sampladelic juice, artificially extending the life of a style in its death throes. For a time in the early 2000s, Guillermo Scott Herren was one of the most interesting outsiders in hip hop.
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