Fuck a Odd Future. The future of rap (or at least of a significant sidebranch of rap’s now omnipresent underground) lies in its past. A bunch of kids from Florida have been mining rap’s golden decade not for its shiny particles of oft-lauded boom bap, but rather for its dust-covered debris of leftfield aberrations. Reaching back to the beginnings of the discourse of “trill,” SpaceGhostPurrp and his RVIDXR KLVN are resurrecting the occult grave desecrator sound of early Three 6 Mafia, the Slow, Loud And Banging echoes of Screwston, Texas, and – less obscure but yet surprisingly seldom recreated – good ol’ fashioned G-Funk. Fusing homage with deconstruction and retromania, they use their knowledge of the past and their deliberately lo-fi recording technique as devices of style as well as distinction, firmly entrenching them in their subcultural niche. Football team preferences aside, these Raiders are gradually turning into “the World’s most dangerous group.”
We’ve compiled 8 Raider Klan-affiliated releases (all from 2012) that you shouldn’t miss out on.
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