LoDeck & The Golden Godz have offered up “Viscera Cera”, a new video single plucked from their album “Dinner at Dorsia“, and I have spent the afternoon letting its bruised nostalgia entirely reconfigure my mood.
You hear a lot of artists attempt to bottle the underground magic of golden-era NYC hip-hop, but usually, you only get the sediment. Here, you get the actual marrow. The Golden Godz map out a smooth, jazzy groove that repeats with a slightly melancholic stubbornness. It sits there in the room with you, calm and mellow, vibrating gently against your sternum.
Upon this laid-back foundation, LoDeck trades bars with featured guest YESH, stepping away from the frantic rat race of modern pop appeal. They wade into the visceral guts of living those foundational memories we usually unpack only when the room gets quiet. LoDeck sounds entirely self-possessed, radiating the weathered confidence of a veteran MC totally devoted to his craft. He bridges Las Vegas grit with his producers’ California sonic architecture, tipping a heavy cap to the old Rawkus Records days along the way.
Does absolute devotion to your uncompromised creative roots eventually make you a modern radical, or simply a fiercely proud survivor holding the map back home?
