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Tezzus and diamond* Take Manhattan

Pitchfork·Alphonse Pierre·about 1 month ago
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If you’ve been keeping up with this website, you probably know by now the recording studios in Atlanta are currently being overrun by vampire boys and futuristic girls , youth preachers and anarchic goblins , SoundCloud nerds and Magic City ready dope boys . Carving out a little lane of their own is ØWay, a supergroup of castaways big enough to fill every position on a baseball field. They might be the next hot thing for those who came of age with Young Thug leaks as if they were Judy Blume books. As Thugger has gone the way of Sundays on HBO, we’re onto about the third generation of his evangelists assembling their swag out of his scraps. First there was Lil Baby and Gunna , turning his melodies into a radio rap format by ditching the idiosyncrasies. Then Lil Gotit and Lil Keed glommed onto the soulfulness. Up next is Tezzus and diamond*, the de facto captains of ØWay, who have taken the modern rapper’s scalpel to his jagged flows in a way that’s beyond straight mimicry.…

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