OCnotes. KELLY O
So how was your Fourth? Good times? Brews and buds? Or just full of terrors and terrible reminders, sick ironies, and glaring hypocrisies? Let’s table that for now—we’re halfway through 2016. Let’s touch on some local offerings that slipped through the cracks.
I dug cuts on Nu Era’s Armadilla Lexus from January—especially “BLK FLWRS,” the one completely stolen right from the gate by an amazing-sounding DoNormaal, epic enough that it merited its own minute-long intro. The crew’s vocal standout is Zac “Turtle T” Millan, a self-described “warrior-poet with a voice so relaxed that I could rap to a baby while it’s taking a nap.” Not, presumably, because it’s boring but because it’s smooth, narcotically so at times…