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At the moment there are two songs in the lower half of the Hot 100 by a previously unknown 20-year-old rapper from the Bay Area named Sage the Gemini. His name faintly screams “no-fun conscious rapper,” but he’s actually working in the proud tradition of California party rap that includes both the Bay’s long-running hyphy scene and LA’s more recent ratchet music phenomenon. Sage himself is kind of a Big Sean type: nonchalantly raunchy and possessed of a penchant for infusing his raps with enough dirty punch lines to elicit a chuckle or two per verse.
Fittingly, the video simply puts Sage together with a bunch of people who are really good at dirty, technically impressive dance moves and just lets them do their thing. It’s the perfect pairing of ear candy with eye candy, and in a perfect world where I didn’t have 12 hours of promos I need to get through sitting in my iTunes, I would watch this thing all day.
