I sort of like how this one doesn't really progress from a walking/intro pace. Like it starts, you think it's gonna go somewhere, but it just stays where it is. It confounds expectations a little.
I cant get much of a sense of the lyrics at all. The beat is OK, I like the minimal nature of it, but it's maybe a little too sparse?
And the tune itself is very short, feels like it's over just as it gets started.
think i'll start with this one as it's the more recent of the two, Drakeo the Ruler's a LA rapper, the leader of the Stinc Team crew alongside his brother Ralphy the Plug, he's one of the main figures of a certain style of West Coast rap that incorporates trap/Detriot rap style production and the rapping style from out of that part of the midwest aswell.
I like when rappers have their own descriptors for their music and he calls his shit "nervous music" him 03 Greedo Frostydasnowmann,1takejay,Rucci, Ohgeesy(formerly of Shoreline Mafia) who i'm not really into they're all names associated with that, Drakeo was active slighty before some of them but couple years back he got derailed cause of a gun charge and they had him locked under solitary, he put out an album last year while he was locked up made up of over the phone raps.
Ontop of that he's a stylist you listen to him rap and he sounds like he's half asleep but when his flow sinks in you realise he's got a really percussive flow and his lyrics are filled surprisingly brutal violence,put downs and jokes at the expense of his ops and all these interesting little snapshots and flamboyant language that feel a million miles away from how deadpan his delivery is and how ice cold and menacing the beats he tends to rap over, there's a strange subtlety to it. (i know Luke's gone on in the past about how he doesn't like Roc Marciano but he's really good at that aswell imo)
He's like E-40,Suga free or even Young Dro if you remember him in that sense, shit like "flu flammin" "shenaenae's" "pippi longstocking" "big bank uuchies" like the best rap it all sounds nonsensical at first but stick with it and it makes more and more sense through context.