On “Void”: “ Young breeds caught up in the fucking gunplay / No MMG, just a RIP / And the Channel 7 news / Bumping on the Twitter feed.”Ģ.
The album is haunted by the specter of friends who “went the wrong way.” Curry recalls these tragedies off-handedly. On his latest “double EP,” Curry comes out swinging with an explosive pugilism that recalls Meek Mill more than Project Pat, filling barn burners like “Ultimate” and “Planet Shrooms” with snapshots of his hometown’s violence amid his druggy spiritualism and nods to late-night Cartoon Network programming. Curry’s music infuses the Raiders’ aesthetic - discursive writing and hazy, aerated production informed by trap, horrorcore, and Clams Casino - with an unforced but fiercely individual perspective. Denzel Curry, 32 Zel / Planet ShroomsĬarol City wunderkind Denzel Curry rose from the ashes of the Miami-based, SpaceGhostPurrp–helmed Raider Klan with his 2013 solo debut Nostalgia 64 - quietly the best full-length to emerge from that dysfunctional circle. 1 If you’re still poring over Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise or - I hope for your sake - Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, then file these away for another time. This is by no means a definitive list or in any particular order. Perhaps this makes it all the more important to identify the smaller-profile gems, many of which were released to minimal fanfare on mixtape sites.
During the past month alone, highly anticipated full-lengths from Chance the Rapper’s collaboration with Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment and A$AP Rocky have arrived, and Vince Staples‘s debut full-length is streamable. And with new albums from Meek Mill and Kanye West on the horizon, the rush isn’t letting up anytime soon. After a muted 2014, this year we’ve already seen the release of roughly a dozen major hip-hop albums in less than six months.
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