DOOMED!, the 45 year-old rapper’s collab effort with producer Kenny Segal, is as clever as ever. Hooks allegorize Street Fighter combos, allusions to Austrian physicists, and sardonic interpolations of Instagram lingo. What sets the record apart, however, is the painful intimacy with which that same wittiness is employed.
Genuine Dexterity is a release that might have lit the scene on fire and cemented itself as a collaboration arguably more important and revelatory than the others which raised Segal’s profile in years prior. Every song has an earnestly elliptical understanding of hip hop as a sonic and social force in a way few artists in the genre do today.
