Percee-P

NYC underground emcee Percee P was in the game for three decades before dropping this, his solo debut. His tightly woven rhymes expand and collapse on one another in a game of linguistic twister. Madlib's production work is equally mercurial, interweaving strands of noisy world music into lo-fi beat pastiche. At times exhilarating and at times overwhelming, Perseverance is a singular hip-hop album in an era that trades on familiarity and safety.