Che and Nettspend, two of the fresh faces shaping the new school of rap who skipped that Canadian festival, are astonishingly young. Che just celebrated turning 20 last week, so they aren’t both still teenagers. Yet when you add up the two artists’ ages, the total comes to 39. Tomorrow I’ll be turning 47, which makes me a rather odd person to comment on “KickAss (Pull Up Pls),” the duo’s first-ever collaboration.
I’ll weigh in anyway. The track pulses with energy, even if I can decipher perhaps only one word out of every five they chant. The beat also comes off as if a digital file were soaked in caustic acid. If you nodded off while blasting CRT static and early Travis Scott mixtapes on speakers near your head, your dreams might sound like this. Listen below.
