Deep Cut: Mestizo f/ DoseOne "Turning Tables"

Late '90s underground rappers unite for the first time.

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Mixtape: None
Producer: Mestizo

Rapping-ass rap loosie from two guys who have been doing it for some time. It’s kind of surprising it’s taken this long for a collab from MestizoandDoseOne, but it’s welcomed over here. For the uninitiated—or maybe you’re of the tumblr rap generation—Mestizo and DoseOne both came up during that underground hip-hop heyday that was the late '90s and early '00s. It’s crazy to think it was that long ago, but there was actually a time that when you battled someone, you had to rap over a beat, and no one told you who it was 6 months in advance. Freestyles meant freestyles, not your song on someone else's beat. Lip-syncing was unheard of. The only free music was on a garbage ass CD-R.

The ever-so-nomadic Mestizo of theMachina Muertemega-crew has uprooted himself to Philly from Los Angeles, and apparently kicked this beat he made over to Dose to help create a flood of straight terror storm. There is no hook, just a quick sample, a loop and some crisp ass drums riding a slow wave of dark synths. They just run through the gauntlet of raps. Mestizo brings an unrelenting barrage of rhymes and only stops to let Dose take his voice down to the bottom of the gravel pit. It’s a throwback to a style that never left and is still ahead of you. Sometimes the men need to come down from the mountain and chin check the village. 

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