Mixtape: Slice Don't Do It: The Myth
Producer: Profit
Freenbandz affiliate Slice 9 first gained attention as the lighter-voiced balance for the aggro Casino on F.B.G. single "Killin It" from 2013's F.B.G.: The Movie. His debut single, "Another One," was a fairly nondescript Paxil-burst product of the Future assembly line. There's an abstracted quality to Slice 9's rapping; if any one thing is keeping his music from really connecting with a broader audience, it's the sense that he's coloring in the lines, rather than drawing the shapes themselves; verses feel a product of craft more than art, like a ghostwriting audition. Nonetheless, he's got a youthful sound, rocking over club tracks with a smoother, cleaner sheen. The result is more engaging when the beat aims for the muscular, as on low-key menacing mixtape finale "Take A Loss."
