Don’t sleep on this: Big Bad by Jaywop

I'm exhausted, my friends. Over the weekend, we were hit with a plethora of think pieces, unnecessary song features, and super overused IG captions. I needed a moment. I needed peace, understanding, and a good excuse for not paying my phone bill. So I took a break from the interweb’s to travel the new music highways. The Apple Music streets were full of traffic, but the new Suede EP by Jaywop made it to my library, so I had to give it "the Beats headphone test" and see if I needed to hear it again and again or escort it off my phone and away from my family.

Its staying… Easily. Jaywop floated on each record, but he left the atmosphere specifically on "Big Bad." The last record on the seven-song project is my favorite. A self-reflective offering of ambition and the journey so far. I fuck with this. The light chords over an almost gospel-like drum cadence and baseline lay perfectly under we'll mixed vocals.

I'd smoke to this; I'd wake up to this too. Take a long late-night drive to this. It checks multiple boxes - that is the point I'm trying to get across. Not many artists get it right as far as the perfect outro to a project. Part of me doesn't want to call this an outro because I don't want to minimize what Jaywop accomplished here. And it is an accomplishment to end on the perfect note.

Sidenote: One day, I will compile a list of the top 5 most skippable outros and intros. It's almost criminal how much some of you rappers and singers slide that bullshit-ass 52-second "effort" into the project, just the tracklist longer like we aren't going to notice. Thank you, Jaywop, for not being that type.

Alright, I got miles to run and smoothies to drink, my friends. In the meantime, stream "Suede" by Jaywop and listen to "Big Bad" on the good speakers over the good Wi-Fi. And remember, the NFL starts this week, and if you're an Eagles fan, you already lost b, pack it in till next year.