Bryant Dope - Champion Sound

Nineteen-year-old Queens native Bryant Dope recently released the “Champion Sound” song and video. The freshman lays down a strong two-and-a-half-minute head-jolt track, which features a rugged Smif-n-Wessun sample. Crisp, classic and distinctively New York, it’s been a short while since there’s been a rookie release this organic, especially in an age where “skinny jeans hip-hop” swamp the lime-lights, it’s refreshing to hear battle-rap slang stutter over boom-bap basslines. Of course this wouldn’t really be as captivating if the young gun didn’t nod at topics of marijuana, money and women. Appropriately, the visual take on the track is produced in lo-fi black and white, showing Bryant Dope rapping vigorously in boxing attire.