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Rasheed Chappell’s Latest Kenny Dope-Produced LP Finds Him At Work With The Masters (Audio)
BY JORDAN COMMANDEUR • SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
While New Jersey’s Rasheed Chappell hasn’t dropped a proper album since his Kenny Dope-produced debut Future Before Nostalgia in 2011, he seems to pop up on dope albums regularly. Check his molten lava stanzas on recent projects by Recognize Ali (The Shining) and Napoleon Da Legend (Steal This Mixtape 4). Outshining guest spots aside, he finally gave Heads his long-awaited sophomore, First Brick, on Friday, September 14.
Just like his first studio album, this opus is entirely produced by House/Hip-Hop legend Kenny Dope. Both albums were also released on K-Dope and Keb Darge’s Kay-Dee Records. One half of Masters At Work has played mentor to Chappell for more than a decade now, and he’s still banging out the kind of classic boom-bap beats that today’s new wave of MCs eat up. Slapping break-beat drums laced with tasty loops mined from deep crates is what give these tracks that nostalgic sound. This is the kind of music that fans from any generation can recognize as genuine Hip-Hop.
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