![]() ![]() His style wound up developing with the outside influence of already known artists, but laced with the personal, true-to-self approach that typically comes from having to impress peers and friends instead of a scene wracked with hypebeasts. While he rode around Chattanooga bumping No Limit classics through the speakers of the ’95 Civic he nicknamed “Cilvia”, he did so knowing that the real scene and all the networking opportunities to advance were some 120 miles down I-75 to Atlanta. Rashad’s background draws from a few different sources. While his BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher appearance last year was a bit of an advance notice, the abrupt arrival of his voice in full proves at least one thing: Top Dawg has scouts that’d make Billy Beane lose his damn mind. ![]() He’s an OutKast fan from the South who’s also comfortable in the context of a West Coast that gave us Labcabincalifornia and Me Against the World the same year. Since they already feel like a modern iteration of the Dungeon Family approach that has seeped into the second-generation Cali gangsta, finding an inverse in Isaiah Rashad makes perfect sense. The previously Los Angeles-centered TDE crew’s adoption of a Southern member isn’t so strange. ![]()
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