The Ones: Curren$y and Harry Fraud’s “Seven Seas”
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Curren$y and Harry Fraud - “Seven Seas”
You might not have noticed that the hot spitta Curren$y remains one of the most prolific rappers working today. He released nine projects in 2019, and he’s already released five this year. He’s so consistent, in both style and subject, that you’ll likely get sucked into his little world of premium weed and fancy whips wherever you choose to dive in. The latest is a smooth EP with producer Harry Fraud called The OutRunners. One of the project’s standout cuts, “Seven Seas,” finds him reliving his many low stakes adventures.
Curren$y obsesses over the finer things, but his sense of luxury feels within grasp. Here, he’s still staying in penthouses with a driveway full of classic cars, while finding time to meet a woman working at a sports bar and get his mom a Mercedes with a big red bow on it. “Baby hit the weed and dozed off/A dream within a dream, she woke up still with a boss,” he raps. The serene flute-led production only underscores the rapper’s sense of calm and control, and he hovers above the lightly kicking drums like he’s surfing on a nimbus cloud. There is a nonchalance to his rapping, which sometimes spills out of pockets, but his impeccable sense of timing leads him back to the measure. Eventually, Curren$y comes to an abrupt halt, letting the flutes become the focus of the action—“Long range game nigga, Pistol Pete/I could stop it right there and just let the beat breathe.” Without that intentional break, it seems as if rap’s hardest working layabout might replay his high times exploits forever.
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Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
