![]() Sadly, Issa Dash and AK’s insistent rhymes sometimes act simply as messy smudges over otherwise pristine instrumentals, and too often end up sounding way too reverential. ![]() This ain’t your typical selection of NYC-stamped Pro Era-related Primo knock-offs, rather there’s a similar restrained latent energy in the productions that made Rome Fortune’s outstanding Beautiful Pimp such a delight earlier in the year. This brief mixtape is vastly different from its predecessor, the rhymes taking a breather from the herb-addled dream-catching you might expect, and pushed into a vastly different place by the selection of beats. ![]() Somewhere down the line however, the duo came into contact with 808 Mafia founder and famed trap pioneer Lex Luger, and The Lords of Flatbush was born. Their following mixtape Indigoism was a typically psychedelic, borderline conscious affair but to be honest, we kinda turned off at that point. Brooklyn duo The Underachievers are probably best known at this point for being snatched up by Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder imprint, and at the time that seemed like a fairly shrewd move.
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