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Humble Pi

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Queens rapper Homeboy Sandman released an album and at least a couple EPs nearly every year of the 2010s, but one of his most resonant is this seven-track co-billed joint with an artist whose presence had been noticeably more sporadic. Edan revealed that he’d maintained his touch in the fallow stretch between 2005 psych-rap miracle oddity Beauty and the Beat and his re-teaming with Sandman for Humble Pi, and the two geeked each other up enough to hit some of their respective conceptual peaks: Vivaldi gone true crime on “Grim Seasons,” social media flushed down the toilet on “#Neverusetheinternetagain,” and return-to-caveman aesthetics on “Evolution of (Sand)Man” show a remarkable range from bleak reportage to cartoonish wiseassery.

Nate Patrin

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