The result is a piece that feels it’s set to induce stoned laughter. On “Cloud Mask,” he sets his flow to a kind of hop-skip-and-jump rhythm over a beat that might float away in a puff of weed smoke. MIGUELITO Chester Watson – “Cloud Mask”Ĭhester Watson’s demeanor can be equally liminal and mischievous. Natia finds a way to laud Issey Miyaki and tell you “chase your dreams” in a way that doesn’t sound like the closing statement of a D.A.R.E. The drums on “Renaissance Armada” are overstated and make any output sound like it’s rattling through subwoofers too big for their containers. When Natia comments on the power of his collabs with producer Sunny Marley, it’s actual not metaphysical. – Jeff Weiss Natia – “Renaissance Armada” This is the kind of communion you can’t discover overnight. The lyrics sound like they were inscribed in THC resin on the walls of each other’s minds. “Rome” finds them refining Kent’s deranged batch of acid trap, dazed but dangerously lucid, finding the northwest passage between dripping and tripping, a beat that sounds beat sounds like it’s being dragged like a cup of mud. Petersburg, Florida, a pair so intrinsically tethered that they can complete each other’s bars or imprecations. So it’s only right that Kent Loon and Chester Watson formed Nu Age in the halls of high school in St. Erick and Parrish, making dollars in Brentwood L.I. That’s why the best rap duos have almost always known each other since the very start. There is a type of telepathic chemistry that you can’t fake. That makes “The Return” an outlier in rap, a genre where civic pride and home grown roots are a defining factor but like the beat’s plucked guitar, this perspective is invitingly different, with a universal appeal going far beyond the relationships Gabe is looking back on. An introspective ode to a life that’s taken him from Africa to New York via Montreal and beyond, the track is a world-weary look at the other side of jet life, dedicated to a restlessness that’s become more of a home than any individual city. But “The Return” isn’t just a fancy way to say he’s been here for years, it’s announcing the latest chapter in a journey that goes deeper than rap. When international man of mystery Gabe Nandez announced his return, you’d be forgiven for wondering just who this guy thought he was. Unranked: (POW Artists) Gabe Nandez – “The Return” Apologies in advance for your favorite rapper not making the cut sometimes it do be like that. Either way, we all appreciate you taking the time to read this and will never stop going in, ask Rich Homie Quan. We do have Patreon-only playlists though, which I promise are real and spectacular. We purposely don’t do put our articles behind a paywall or private substack because we believe it’s important that everyone have access, whether they can afford it or not. Should you value what we do, please consider donating to the Patreon. If each reader contributed $5 a month we could flourish. For the last 18 months, we’ve had a Patreon that has helped us continue, but it only goes so far. Three editors and 36 contributors attempting to capture the spirit of the old weird Internet. This is the result of hundreds of hours of labor. This list that you’re about to read is a labor of love, inasmuch as anything can be a labor of love in this hellish griftocracy where algorithm knows best.Įven labors of love come at the significant cost of time. We don’t do sponcon, we don’t do clickbait, we don’t have any corporate overlords.
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