Long EP by New York rapper AG produced by Belgium-born Koss, which provides an amazing soundscape: light jazzy boom bap, often soulful, skeletal, tight, sometimes bouncy, always purely underground, New York, dope. If it were an instrumental album it'd come close to 4.5/5, it'd be among the must-listen to jazz rap records presenting tributes to Nas, deep jazzy cornets looped in the background ("Live It Up") and smooth jazz with growing strings ("Get It Baby"). Sadat X kills the opening cut, and DJ Doom provides a good remix for the final song. To lengthen the record, AG adds two different versions of the "worst" song, not a great choice: putting together beat and rapping the result is already sufficient, here he decides to divide them into two separate songs and the result isn't good enough.
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