Can you feel it, my friends? Change is in the air. Long sleeves are hitting the shelves. The good clothing brands are making fire-ass hoodies again, and we’re on the cusp of a new iPhone even if Apple hasn’t technically announced it.

Winter is coming, my haircut is very fresh, my Apple Music subscription is paid, and as usual, I’m swimming through various struggle bars and beats to find the diamonds in the rough. Insert “Hot Sauce” by Lamar parish.

“Hot Sauce” starts with menacing guitar strings being plucked just before Lamar breaks through. “Cook up the beat no hot sauce,” he raps over a beat that’s going absolutely crazy 20 seconds in. Lamar isn’t about to be outdone by production, though, as he very comfortably slides all over the booms and the baps. 

This is my first time hearing Lamar Parish, and it makes for a great introduction as Lamar details the ups and downs of his journey and puts the rap world on notice. He’s on his way up, and if he continues making music like this, then it’ll be a quick trip to notoriety. My only knock on this song is that it’s only two minutes.

Sidenote: I need all of you rappers and singers to go back to making songs three minutes… two and a half at the least. I just barely got my seatbelt on, and the song is fading out. Now I gotta loop this myself cause the fire gotta burn much longer b…

I feel like Lamar hit the mark here, and I feel like you need to listen to this asap. While you do that, I’m going to let my landlord know I’m about to spend the rent on hoodies and shoes, so if she wants it, she gotta see me in Street Fighter II champion edition. Until next time my friends and remember, she only wants to smoke your weed and make Instagram stories in the sweater you just bought.