Listen to Shaudy Kash’s “Wassup”: New Rap Music Today

Shaudy Kash: “Wassup”

The Bill Bellamy of Detroit rap is back at it again. When Shaudy Kash drops you know you’re in for macking not seen since the days of ’90s Bay Area hip-hop—specifically the work of Too $hort, right down to the excessive use of $hort’s favorite word. Sometimes half-assed beat selection holds back Shaudy Kash’s near spoken-word raps, though that’s never a problem when he links up with human funk machine Topside like he does on “Wassup.” The Michigan producer’s groovy psychedelia sets the mellow mood, and Shaudy Kash cruises in spitting smooth talk: “Even if a bitch with her boo, I slide in/‘Like, bae, we can still do what we do, yep don’t mind him.’” Game is game.

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