Sticks and drums, but I don't play in a band
Countin' all this money until it hurt my hand
You musta deserved it if my gun don't jam"
Ezale - Make Her Gig
(From Town Taxes album; 2025/YouTube; 2026)
First great Rap single of 2026 is the ninth and final song from from Ezale's Town Taxes album to be blessed with a video. Oakland went from Turf Buccaneers to Surf Buccaneers as Ezale hung ten toes down and caught a ride on Big Blue with the waviest choon of 2025. Ezale is one of the few rappers who makes entertaining sausage-fest videos, but you gotta appreciate him ending Town Taxes with a video where he's surrounded by eye-candy. Why do rappers always wanna fill their videos with blokes whose faces look mean like Halloween?
Related: I was optimistic about Max B & French Montana's Since U Left Me after I heard this snippet. The song just dropped and of course Max ruined it by using Auto-Tune. Oh, how the mighty has fallen off his surfboard and is drowning in terrible musical decisions. Rap's cosmetic dentistry curse strikes again.
6 comments:
How did I completely miss this? Ezale put an album out last year?
Yeah, only 9 songs, but it bumps from front to back. You probably know all the songs already because he's shot videos for all of them.
Is he not bothering with releasing Town Taxes on CD? A boomer's gots to know.
Doesn't look like it 😶
Haven't listened to Coke Wave 3,5 yet but that MAWA song was atrocious. That Whippin' That Wave song they dropped a few days ago over Nas Queen's Finest instrumental was pretty good though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXdGUWbMX0&list=RDRBXdGUWbMX0&start_radio=1
I hate having to play 'which part of the song / video were AI?' game whenever I listen to new Max/French.
On sunnier topics, Town Taxes is probably my favourite tape since 2020. Slim pickings but to me it's as good as any rap record I've ever heard.
Town Taxes was definitely the best Rap album of last year. Fuck all those shitty Best Rap Albums of 2025 lists which didn't include it. These critics were born with a taste bypass.
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