SPORTEE

Let's just get it out the way: Nolan the Ninja can really really rap. We're talking about the ability to leave the mic in body bags like a long-lost tenth member of the Wu-Tang Clan and the gift to spit something so explosive that it makes you believe that he could've supplied an ideal third verse on Nas and AZ's "Life's a Bitch." With "Sportee", Nolan annexes new terrain within well-established territory, tapping deeply into the lineage of ferocious Detroit rhymers. This is that slaughtering attack that stunned you the first time you heard J Dilla's "Fuck the Police," Elzhi's Europass, Phat Kat's Carte Blanche or Danny Brown in the Detroit State of Mind-era.