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Thanksgiving — as relaxing as it can be — can also be a blur. There's the food, the friends, the fighting with your family over politics. There are the sales, and there's the fact that we're all too broke to really be buying $45 wake up lights anyway.
Thankfully Bay area music fans had some fantastic local releases to dive into over the holiday. One of them is a collaboration featuring two of Tampa's most intense, and sinister-sounding emcees — Prince Golden and Charles Burns. Golden x Burns is a complete throwback to the golden days of rap one-two attacks and also a nod to more contemporary aesthetics like the ones Run the Jewels and Adult Swim have brought to to the mainstream.
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The 10-track release clocks in at under half-an-hour and rides classic production from CL favorites like Beyo, Gat$ and Wally Clark. It also features guests like Khalea Lynee (who appears on the Chris Gr3en-produced "Smooth Never Lost") who add softer touches to the canvas.
What's more is that the album — which was born out of the emcees' love for artists like Dilla, Flying Lotus and Madlib — almost didn't happen after 2010 tracks recorded at home couldn't be polished enough for
"Me and burn had finished a 17 track project in 2010 but couldn't find anyone to mix and master it at the time," Golden told CL in a message. "The chemistry between us and the beats [were] perfect, [but] we could never put it out because it sounded horrible quality wise."
So the got back together, worked on all original beats from friends and locals in the scene, including two from Rude 100, who also mixed and mastered the entire release, which you can listen to below.
Watch a visual — directed by CL contributor Michael M. Sinclair — above. Follow the group on Facebook and Bandcamp.
This article appears in Nov 30 – Dec 7, 2017.