“Welcome to Ro-vember,” the voice intones. “Me and BeanOne want everything.”
Romaro Franceswa, noun (Ro-mare-oh Fran-swah)—the Soufend spitter with outsize ambition and charisma who’s perfected his swing on his brilliant new album, Balance. If you wanna hear it (you do), Romaro and Bean are unveiling the album track by track every other day via Romaro’s Soundcloud page during this month they’ve repurposed as #Rovember. Over the lean, understated-to-epic beats—what might actually be my favorite production ever from Seattle’s ageless, prolific OG BeanOne, who’s not just one of the city’s all-time best hiphop producers, but high-key one of Seattle rap’s most dependable A&Rs—Ro raps butterfly-knife swift, melodic, sharp, and fluttery-light, sword as paintbrush…