A millennial update of Mobb Deep nihilism. DANNY CLINCH
In 2013, I described the emerging music of West Seattle–bred rapper/producer Mackned as “focused on glamorous/dangerous living, drug abuse, and zero-trust/100-percent-predation on the entire female half of the planet’s population. There’s only so much room for truly groundbreaking content within those strict parameters, but none of these releases are without their enjoyable moments. Chief among them are those emotive… beats and the serotonin-low bipolarity.”
Ned came to local notoriety first as a new recruit to the Moor Gang massive. A prolific rapper and producer, he quickly established himself as a self-starter who wasn’t made to wait in the wings…