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EsDeeKid – “Rebel” review

This is the debut extended play from Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom rapper EsDeeKid. Making his debut on wax towards the backend 2023 on the Dualspines loosie “Altered”, he subsequently began to drop a slew of songs on his SoundCloud a few months later that would help him gain traction such as “Apathy” or “Palaces”. A great deal of the teasers building up towards Rebel have been considered to be his most celebrated material & had myself curious to hear if it would live up to the hype.

“4 Raws” featuring Timothée Chalamet on the remix combines hardcore hip hop, trap, Chicago drill, gangsta rap, cloud rap & wave talking about their own pasts whereas “Cali Man” featuring Rico Ace embraces the styles of jerk, gangsta rap & cloud rap discussing their preference of high quality weed. “Prague” works in some 808s to talk about leaving a show at the Czech Republic’s capital leading into “Dirty” expressing his love of sippin’ lean.

fakemink & Rico Ace appear on “LV Sandals” fusing jerk, cloud rap, gangsta rap & hardcore hip hop talking about hoes acting scandalous while “Panic” produced by Fimiguerrero explains that he won’t ever stop the racket since he’s always been a mad kid. Fimiguerrero himself gets his own solo track with “5am”, continuing the 2nd half blending jerk, cloud rap & rage referencing WWE Hall of Famer & former World Heavyweight Champion The Great Khali.

“Phantom” featuring Rico Ace reunites for a jerk, hardcore hip hop, dark plugg, cloud rap & gangsta rap single talking about being blacked out while “Mist” also featuring Rico Ace finds the 2 teaming up 1 last time for a cloudy jerk joint detailing their lifestyles. “Rottweiler” could most likely be my least favorite track here mostly because of its structuring while “Tartan” featuring Fimiguerrero references the current 17-time WWE world champion John Cena.

Jerk has been becoming hip hop’s next big subgenre within the past couple years characterized by taking elements of both plugg & the late 2000s jerk rap fad during my early middle school days, but Rebel has to be the greatest body of work I’ve heard done primarily using this new style for only being an extended play on top of validating EsDeeKid’s increasing popularity across the world. He’s essentially flipping UK grime on its head through the added influences of both Playboi Carti & Yeat to the mix describing the debauchery in his life.

Score: 4/5

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Sk8star – “rebel” review

This is the 4th EP from Atlanta, Georgia recording artist Sk8star. Blowing up in the spring of 2021 off Superstar Status, he would go on to follow it up last year with both the B4NWØ EP & his debut mixtape New World Ørder respectively. The latter being my introduction to Sk8’s music after my lil brody UnreleasedSnip put me on, with songs like “Standin’ on Business” & “YSL Flow” being the standouts for me personally. He just dropped his previous EP Mogul a month after we saw him live in Brooklyn & just so happened to surprise drop rebel here over the weekend, 4 weeks later.

“king of the hill” is a guitar-tinged trap opener with Sk8 talking about a baddie in high heels being totally unaware of how good he makes her feel whereas “mono boots alyx” has a more atmospheric approach asking a shorty what her sign is & shows off the titular boots that he happens to own. “imma ride” works in some hi-hats & strings speaking on being by his homie’s side, but then “status” takes the cloudier route to talk about how he been ballin’. The woozy penultimate track “in the shadows” finds Sk8 acknowledging that he’s doing better than his enemies & they hate him for it just before “motion” produced by Nosaint & ReidMD of Vanguard Music Group sends things off on a peppy yet melodic note having just that.

If anyone’s still not up on this dude yet, then I recommend you change that because I think one of the ATL’s most exciting up-&-comers at the moment is gonna go even harder than he did last year when I got put onto him & this definitely goes to show it. It’s really fresh to hear him detail where he’s at in his life currently & even displaying his versatility with some the beats that these producers bring to the table.

Score: 3.5/5

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