Playlist #145 & #146

Getting another 2 for 1 this week, after a spotty publishing schedule. I had to go back to work 5 days a week recently and so got less time for bloggin’ bout rap tunes.

#145 starts with a NYC boom bap song from King F.L.O.

The final three all had fewer than 1000 views on YouTube when i first came across them (I think I actually gave one of them its 1000th view), but all are very good tracks. Sometimes you gotta find gems in the less frequently traveled spaces of the world. My favorite of them is the All Hail YT joint, channeling some Larry June vibes. The Born Allah single is nice too, and the album has another song with a good Raka feature.

If #145 had a song channeling Larry June, #146 has the real deal. This one has Larry J trading a verse with Jay Worthy over a meandering soul sample. "Eat some blueberries in the morning, a little raw spinach". He’s too cold mane…

The Grand Nationxl Wolf Pack has made an appearance on these playlists before, and does again this week with JANE HANDCOCK. Jane gets bars off over a crescendoing gospel beat.

More and more in the past year, I just want to listen to Planet Asia. Maybe its the Central California thing, but proly its the thing where he just stacks bar after bar after bar while also flowing on beat, not rapping through the beat as so many dense rap guys do. On this one he starts his verse with:

"Its always time to get it, my mind is prime aesthetic, refined like foreign fabrics designed for the Serengeti”

And the just goes off from there. Don’t sleep on the OGs my guy.

Finally, Ruste Juxx pays homage to a bunch of great music that came before. The gimmick of building the verses around just name checking classic songs is executed perfectly

"Fuck the Police, 911 is a Joke, if you ain’t Got 5 On It, homie you can't smoke"