Get familiar with Domo Mayo, an artist out of South Carolina who traded in his hoop dreams for fantasies of platinum plaques once he moved to the birthplace of hip-hop: New York City. Grinding from Brooklyn since 2009, the lyricist shows musical influences by differentiating facets of hip-hop like the trap-rap, drill beats, and the more satisfyingly simple rhyme schemes of his contemporaries, such as Future and Travis Scott.

The plight of a hip-hop connoisseur . They want lyrics that mean something, they want flow and substance but they also love themselves some trap beats. Turning all the way up on the occasionally blurry line between storytelling music and the gangsta ish that can lit-ify any setting is an art only the older school emcee can execute, right? Not anymore.

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