Yellow Tape

After a few years under the mighty wing of rapper Young Dolph, Key Glock is ready to fly solo. And with *Yellow Tape*, an album devoid of the features we’ve come to expect from young artists’ offerings, the Paper Route Empire protégé does exactly that. With semi-staccato Memphis flows bouncing over the murky timbres of Tennessean producer Bandplay’s slow and syrupy beats, the legacy of hometown heroes Three 6 Mafia and Project Pat looms over the project. Yet much like his previous mixtape offerings, Glock uses the dark and trippy Hypnotize Minds spirit more like a jumping-off point than pure tribute, filling his double cup to the brim on the retrospective opener “1997” and letting loose from there. Freed from sharing the spotlight, he emerges as a man in full, speaking directly to the hustlers on “Dough” and sneering at the haters on “Look at They Face.”

The Memphis rapper offers hard truths and effortless swagger on his uncompromising new mixtape.

Over the course of several mixtapes, Memphis rapper Key Glock quickly developed a style that incorporated elements of Memphis rap's historically effortless, drawling delivery but also delved deep into his own experiences for high-impact lyrics of struggle and come up.

Memphis, TN has long been a space where rap music has thrived, yet in the past few years, we've seen a resurgence of music popping out of th...