Redemption by Jay Rock Hip-Hop/Rap • 2018 (listen)

Redemption
Jay Rock
Hip-Hop/Rap
• 2018

EDITORS’ NOTES

It’s easy to forget that Jay Rock was the first artist to break out of the Top Dawg camp a decade ago, considering the amount of brilliance that consistently emanates from the label (Kendrick, SZA, ScHoolboy Q). The Watts MC tells his often-overlooked story in full on the introspective “OSOM,” sighing, “Outta sight, outta mind/Feeling like I’m running out of time.” Capitalizing on his scene-stealing verse on “King’s Dead” (which first appeared on the Kendrick-curated Black Panther soundtrack), Redemption proves that he is, in fact, right on time—a rapper at the very top of his game, aggressively reclaiming whatever attention that’s slipped him by in the past. ~ Apple Music