When Wes Period's housing situation fell through earlier this year, the young LA upstart got creative, pretty literally. The rapper and producer decided to shack up in a cheap studio and put up a Craigslist ad to engineer sessions at his new temporary home. His first reply? Ye Ali, the young Indiana-born artist and songwriter who's already being tipped as one of wavy R&B's next to break (PARTYNEXTDOOR and Trinidad James even made nocturnal cameos in his video for "Late Night Flex"). When Ali arrived, the new collaborators ended up hitting it off effortlessly, vibing to a beat. So he called up Tommy Genesis, the visual artist and self-professed "fetish rapper" whose forward-thinking underground sound is the insane spirit child of Death Grips and Lil Kim. Fans of intoxicatingly twisted Atlanta rap might recognize the Vancouver-born Genesis from Father's cult Awful Records roster, if not her own Fatima al Qadiri-leaning banger "Execute."
When Tommy laid down entrancing vocals on Ye and Ali's track, that was it — baby.daddi, the trio's collective moniker, was born. They've been holed up in the studio ever since, crafting the self titled EP i-D is very pleased to premiere today.
Baby.daddi is five tracks of pure summer stickiness — indisputably essential listening for any hazy house party one wishes to describe as "lit." Tommy's flow transitions effortlessly between syrupy slow hooks — which groove with Ali's own — and quick lyrical quips, each vibe masterminded by Wes' humid drum hits. "There was no set process, there never is. Artists just come together," Tommy explains. "We all wrote our own parts and then Wes was the one who really fit the puzzle together. If Wes is the glue then Ye is the pigment, and I was the trap."
[00:00] Sam Gellaitry - Want U
[03:50] Pep - Envolvencia
[05:40] DJ-Juls Ft. Eugy x Mr Eazi x Sarkodie - Teef Teef
[08:20] Krs. - Insecure
[10:15] Menthalo - Chillin
[12:03] Don Diestro ~ Receipts ft. Jetpack Jones
[14:04] Orijanus - 48 Lisashawjawn
[15:36] Unknown - Unknown
[16:00] IOAH - Customsflip
[18:00] Ayar - Authentic
[20:40] Mars Today - Stuck
[23:13] Jhfly - Sleepin
[24:45] Melo & Lobe - Humble Minds
[27:18] Musubi - De longe Phonk
[28:06] Cardosu - Congratulations (Cardosu Flip)
[30:20] Stamp The Wax - The Milk - Trouble Gonna Bring Me Down (Tall Black Guy Remix)
[32:35] Loop.holes - Mary Jane
[34:35] Lo-Fiction Radio - Take No L's
[36:52] OTesla X Omaure - Kuku
[38:26] Austin Lebrón - Yoy Pa Ya
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