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Jay Rock is the member of Top Dawg Entertainment best known for spitting bars on Kendrick Lamar's "Money Trees", but his major-label career dates back to 2005. Where his 2011 debut felt like a formalist relic, his sophomore effort is weirder and more daring, with free-ranging production giving Rock space to dazzle with limber diction and stunning, cinematic imagery.

Since his debut effort Follow Me Home dropped in 2011, Watts MC Jay Rock landed on Saturday Night Live thanks to an appearance with his old crew member Kendrick Lamar.

The first Black Hippy member out the gate is also now the last to drop a studio album after his friend and former hypeman Kendrick Lamar bec...