5 On It: Shades of Summer

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5 On It is a feature that looks at five of the best under-the-radar rap findings from the past two weeks, highlighting new or recently discovered artists, or interesting obscurities.

Odie – “Catch Up” & “Too Late”

Toronto’s Odie defies easy classification. Standouts “Catch Up” and “Too Late” showcase an artist blurring the lines of clear classification, rapping and singing, delivering impressionistic lyrics (particularly on “Catch Up”) without venturing into unnecessary abstraction, light and breezy without feeling aimless. Soulful evidence of styles sprouting up just outside the long shadow of the nigh inescapable Six God.

(note: coincidence or something, but same beat as Rashaun song)