Prehysteric & Profit switchbladed through cerebral swagger and charismatic weight on the debut single, ‘Burn One’

Prehysteric & Profit represented two states as they came straight out of the gate and exhibited themselves as two hip-hop heavyweights on Burn One, their joint debut release. As Prehysteric flexes his cerebral swagger through the syllabic contortions in his bars, Profit drops synergy into the mix with his heavy-with-charismatic-weight energy. From the opening stretch, the pair set a high bar by refusing to dilute their instincts, arriving fully formed as emcees capable of commanding their own lanes while sharpening each other’s edges. Their dynamic holds an immediacy that makes the whole collaboration feel like something sparked in real time. Together, the two emcees wax lyrical, bouncing off the polyphonic synths, jazzy hip-hop motifs and drippings of funk that give the debut single an edge carved on its own terms. Instead of arbitrary experimentalism, the collaborative duo kept the track accessible enough to appeal to everyone from the boom-bap beat heads to fans of modern lyrical hip-hop. They were just riffing off the fumes of their own innate ingenuity, and you can practically feel the high settle in when you ingest what they’re serving as you lock into the infectiously relatable bars. Those bars switchblade through juxtaposing proclamations that pull […]

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