Covert Coup

aoty

rollingstone

This New Orleans MC (and former Lil Wayne protégé) has celebrated his move to a new label by darkening up his trademark weed-rap, backing his hazy musings with gritty, paranoid production that's more New York than NoLa. Curren$y's topics — cars, kush, and cash — are familiar and repetitive, but his intricate, stream-of-consciousness narratives come […]

pitchfork

Two versatile hip-hop vets-- each in a nice patch in their tumultuous careers-- combine for a tape of dense lyrics and evocative tracks. Freddie Gibbs guests.