After some singles, Yung Gleesh and DJ Iceberg present his latest project, Your Favorite Rapper’s Favorite Rapper, which is less like a polished project and more like a compilation of what the “shitbag” has been up to lately. You get the usual Gleesh weirdness and collaborations with in-house producer 2Tall and 1135 affiliates P-Wild and Chris Bo.  There is also some beats from Atlanta stalwarts K.E. and Zaytoven and some collaborations with GBE’s Ballout and Capo.  Gleesh also gets some left-field features, like LA rapper SK LaFlare and Philly Fool’s Gold signee Grande Marshall. The mixtape has a wide array of tracks including a fully (better) mixed version of the rapid-fire “Go Thru”, although the mixing on some parts of the project (“Go Thru” included) was a little shoddy. That track, “I Got Money” and the misspelled “Cemetary” show a lot of more experimental types of vocals, ranging from leaned-out autotuned tracks, rapid-fast flows, and slower chants (like in “Please” which was a bonus track.) The beats are mostly your typical 808s, synths and Trap-format but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, the simpler structure allows for more vocal dexterity. So, the tape is pretty good, even great if you’re used to Yung Gleesh’s weirdness or similar artists (Peewee Longway and Young Thug both come to mind).   This isn’t going to be throwback rap with a positive message, or the usual street rapper bars for 3-4 minutes, but hopefully that isn’t what most people are looking for…

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