Hearken to Guapo’s “Self”: New Rap Music As we speak

Guapo: “Self”

New Jazz’s interstellar SoundCloud funk. The acute pitch-shifting of “Free Lil Onion.” Screw tapes. “Flatbed Freestyle.” TisaKorean’s “Bought Me Trippin.” The druggiest songs on Loe Shimmy’s Zombieland 2. That’s the mini-moodboard that involves thoughts after I hearken to Guapo’s “Self.” Within the final a number of months, Guapo has landed on a fab sound with a number of vocal results that really feel each fashionable and indebted to his Houston roots. Right here, high- and low-pitched tweaks boost in any other case fundamental raps (credit score to “Yo’ jewellery got here from Temu,” although) due to how they layer on high of each other. If the beat weren’t so relaxed, Guapo would sound possessed—and all of this vocal tinkering is finished with out ever dropping his wobbly Texas drawl.

With artists releasing songs at a quick and livid tempo, it’s troublesome for the common hip-hop head to maintain monitor of all of it—irrespective of how tapped in they’re. That’s why we created The Ones, a each day publish to focus on the track you’ll want to hear.

Take a look at earlier Ones, and hearken to new rap from Guapo and extra on our Spotify playlist.