Illastrate's lyrics & chords

While the instrumental hip-hop phase of 2010 spawned nothing more than a bunch of neophytes pretending to be Flying Lotus and El-P and making the audio equivalent of electronic noodling, there were also some straight-ahead producers of good old boom-bap who remembered that hip-hop can be less ambitious and still interesting. Atlanta (by way of Indiana) producer Illastrate, who most notably worked on fellow ATL resident Boog Brown’s excellent Grind Season Vol. 1 mixtape of 2010 and NYC’s Legacy LP from Akir, has offered his new instrumental ...read more