\n The bulk of Slimedude2003 comprises a bundle of fan-favorite snippets and leaks from the past six months, but wasn\u2019t the project Protect initially had in mind for the summer. The rapper\u2019s hand was forced when fans found his unreleased album on [untitled] after close associate and streamer Bruce Dropemoff inadvertently leaked the project\u2019s URL onstream in late April. The files quickly hit the internet, and so from a distance, Slimedude2003 is less of a gift to the fans than an understandable attempt to reclaim ownership (and streaming income) for these songs.\n <\/p>\n
\n But that eclectic, unsequenced approach might actually be in Protect\u2019s favor, giving listeners a broader view of his uncanny taste in music production. And these are truly some of the most beautiful and intricate beats Protect has ever gotten, which is saying a lot when you consider past heaters like \u201cIon Wanna Talk\u201d and \u201cIfUGotMe<\/a>.\u201d The echoey \u201cFirearm\u201d twinkles with starry beeps and boops by ovanni; makkgin threads a woozy, ascending synthline through the fog of \u201cRe4,\u201d where Protect compares himself to the horror games\u2019 protagonist Leon S. Kennedy.\n <\/p>\n \n But it\u2019s the album\u2019s backstretch where things truly come together. chinapoet and heroine construct a stuttering, juddering amalgam of a sstepteam-type beat for \u201cAc130;\u201d sentry and 23.558×23.558 (yes, that\u2019s really his name) operate in a similar vein on \u201cReset.\u201d The negative space on \u201cReset\u201d in particular inspires Protect to dig a tiny bit deeper to fill out these songs, admitting that online comments about his looks, \u201cturnt me to a hider \/ but I can\u2019t be no hider.\u201d That simple repetition might sound silly on paper, but it\u2019s infused with enough emotion on wax to go down easy. Later on that same song, Protect raps, \u201cDive with no thought, like dolphin \/ Can we stay together like dolphins?\u201d The line lands genuinely thanks to his oddly tender affect.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bulk of Slimedude2003 comprises a bundle of fan-favorite snippets and leaks from the past six months, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-480044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}