The Awakening

Finesse had already proved himself as a rapper by '95, but this record is really a producer's flex with bars attached. The DITC chemistry is all over it — Diamond D and Showbiz adjacent in spirit even when they're not on the boards. Play "Yes You May" remix and then tell me the horn stab isn't the best four bars of sampling on the whole tape. Dense, boom bap at its most unbothered.

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