Lil Supa's Animal is one of the better arguments for the irrelevance of geography in current underground hip-hop. The Venezuelan MC, who moves between Caracas, New York, and Miami under the creative umbrella of his Yo! Yo! Dojo label and his production alias Dakota Codename, built a 15-track album with a roster that stretches from Cookin Soul to Big Noyd and proves that New York's sonic vocabulary has been truly absorbed and internally processed rather than merely imitated. "Jungle," produced by DJ Skizz, is the hardest evidence: Big Noyd, who built his reputation in Mobb Deep's shadow before carving his own lane, steps in and meets Supa entirely on even ground. Skizz's beat is unambiguous boom bap built for this specific exchange. "Lince," produced by Barcelona-based Doktor Rheal, works a different angle – darker, more European in texture, with Supa's Spanish-language bars carrying the same precision he deploys in English. The double visual, directed by Esteban Chacín and shot in the NY-MIA corridor, is as clean as the production.
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