Al Rogers Jr. gives us game on a Moods’s sample strung Teddy Pendergrass track, “This Aint A Love Song”, about how to live life. Never one to stray away from the thoughts that he possesses, he speaks to the people judging his style: “My bad if you think that I’m gay. My bad I can wear the shit that you can’t.” He breathes and then continues, “ You ‘ol lookin ass nigga/ If success was in the book, you’d be a stupid ass nigga.” According to Rogers, this is one of the first songs of his sophomore project, aptly titled, Baby Al.

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Al Rogers Jr. makes his own version of  Inc.’s “The Place” and builds upon theirs, furnishing it with brief descriptions of his life’s ups and downs– mentioning the loss of a friend to an unwavering pill addiction. We haven’t  heard much from Al since his first project in 2012, but it seems as though this offering  serves as a precursor to his impending project, Baby Al.

Listeners who have heard the distinctive melodic funk of “The Place” before may recognize it from the Grand Theft Auto V Soundtrack. The L.A. based brothers are signed to British indie label 4AD, also home to SpaceGhostPurrp and Grimes. Listen to Al‘s rendition below.

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