Hip-Hop Albums of the Year

23 February, 2021

Waterr & DirtyDiggs — Wizard of the Crystal 2 EP


Collaborative EP between Chicago rapper Waterr and Los Angeles producer DirtyDiggs, they're on their sixth and seventeenth efforts respectively in the year.

The tape consists of six very short joints in addition to intro and outro, for a total of about a dozen minutes of listening. The Chi-Town rapper practically travels on autopilot on a not too inspired production of DirtyDiggs: the first one is probably the best tune, the producer chooses a light boom bap composed of a slow and lean downtempo drum and a female soulful sample chopped and looped in the background, a sonic carpet on which Waterr delivers bars with a confident and slow delivery style. The quality seems to wane immediately, but it never goes below a certain level: the producer's jazzy lo-fi beats are accessible and the rapper's delivery is decent, even if he has a somewhat generic style and he doesn't impress. 6/10.

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