In some of the cooler underground rap that I've been hearing lately, I hear distinct echoes of cloud-rap, the mini-genre that generated a whole lot of early-'10s internet buzz and helped launch some big careers. There's an argument that fakemink's whole sound, for example, is just a glitchier mutation of cloud-rap. Back when he was one half of Main Attrakionz, Oakland rapper/producer Squadda B more or less invented cloud-rap, and his latest track feels extremely of-the-moment.
Squadda Bambino never really went away, and he's been fairly prolific lately. Last year, Squadda released his guest-heavy album The Wonderful World Of Squadda B and his all-instrumental SM6. He's got a new one called Evolver on the way — nobody tell 311 — and he shared a new track called "It Was All A Dream" today. In the Bandcamp description, Squadda says that he spent 10 minutes writing the track in an unfamiliar Detroit studio on his birthday, letting the spirit move him wherever it wanted. I really like the blown-out beat and the echo-drenched vocals. Listen below.
In the Bandcamp alert for "It Was All A Dream," Squadda says Evolver is out 4/17.
