This February saw the release of an almost slept-on masterpiece of Southern rap music: Renaissance Gangster.
A street album that clocks in at eleven tracks in 42 minutes is a stroke against the current grain of contemporary rap’s obsession with excess. The sort work of cohesion that’s almost extinct these days, Renaissance Gangster is the product of two individuals, one handling beats the other handling vocals. The result is testament to the original simplicity, and transparency of rap music. Sleeping on Renaissance Gangster would be criminal.
FACT was lucky to catch up with these two talented and busy individuals to talk about the project and about how it came to fruition.
How did you two get together for Renaissance Gangster?
Starlito: “We were introduced professionally by a common acquaintance and Burn One then started shooting me some beats for Starlito’s Way 3, my street album. And…truth is Renaissance Gangster happened over about three studio sessions with Burn’s beats, when I realized I can’ necessarily make Starilto’s Way 3 sound like this…just cause, you know, Burn One’s just got his own sound and eventually that moulded its own project. I looked at it and I had gathered an album’s worth of material to tell my story with, and I think musically it told Burn One’s story as well. In the end we had carved our own niche, doing what we do and a great project was born.”
Check out more of the Interview here.
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