You already know the company line on Nocando. In consecutive songs on his new Zero Hour EP, he spits hard as Hell(fyre) double-time raps referencing Oedipus Rex. The next song is called “Westside Rentals” and finds him dreaming of a “house with a pool on the Westside with a black Betty Page sitting deckside.”It’s smart, absurd, and well-rapped. What more do you want?
Regional rap has been the Internet buzzword for about a decade and Jimmy the Lock’s songs capture the feeling of being a 20-something dreamer questing for a better life in LA. It’s somewhere between the cartoon anarchy of Odd Future and the gangsta art-rap of Black Hippy. Raps about the silent majority. Beats from Mexicans with Guns, Nosaj Thing, and Busdriver. I’ll stop now. You download.
Tracklist below the jump.
Download:
ZIP: Nocando-Zero Hour EP
Zero Hour tracklisting:
01 Sold Out
02 Night Night
03 Bernie (feat. Busdriver)
04 Zero Hour
05 You Got Me Fucked Up
06 Fais Que Vou Voulez (Chopped & Screwed)
07 Oedipus
08 Westside Rentals
09 Hollywood
