Da Beatminerz produce, Truth raps, Kurious takes the back half and the first thing worth clearing up is what this isn't. "The Get Up" is not a cut from Nostalgia ThEraPy 2, the seven-track album Truth and the Beatminerz released last November. It's a standalone, put out first for the heads and headed to streaming afterwards, which is a deliberate choice rather than a leftover. Musically it sits exactly where you'd expect from Evil Dee and Mr. Walt: a warm, unhurried loop, drums that sit back rather than push, and space left for two voices that have both spent decades knowing what to do with space. Truth opens with scene-setting uptown, downtown, a Hummer, a stoop, then the basement and by the time he's "flipping through more records than law enforcement" the record has already told you what kind of afternoon it is. His flow is fast but unshowy, punchlines landing on the bar line rather than ahead of it. Kurious is the reason to press play twice. He arrives with the self-introduction ("It's Lucifer the magician") and then does the thing he's always done: internal rhymes stacked so casually you only catch them on the third listen, a voice that sounds like it's leaning back while the syllables speed up. He and Truth don't trade bars so much as hand the track back and forth, and the hook hands up, out of your seat, groove to the beat is a party chant with no interest in irony. Video duties go to Los of Classic Material, with editing by 40oz Productions. There isn't a concept to decode. It's a boom-bap record about the pleasure of boom-bap records, made by people who have the paperwork to back it up.
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