Ty Farris & Divine Crime "No Trepidation" [SINGLE]

One track, about three minutes, filed under gangsta rap, and the pairing on the billing tells you most of what you need: Ty Farris raps, Divine Crime produces. No separate producer credit is listed, but the division of labour is not in doubt — it is the same division that produced their album together. Farris is from Detroit and came up in the city's battle circuit under the name T-Flame, trading verses in the lineage that ran through Proof and the open-mic rooms that made so many of that city's MCs. He has been prolific since: the No Cosign Just Cocaine series, Ramen Noodle Nights, Fluorescent Mud, Sounds That Never Left My Soul, Enigma With An Attitude, and most recently Run Toward The Monster with Apollo Brown. The through-line is conceptual street writing with a technical edge, and reviewers have consistently framed him as an MC's MC rather than a singles artist. Divine Crime is the less visible half and arguably the more interesting one. On Timing Of A Tarantula, the album the two of them made, he assembled a producer roster — Apollo Brown, Clypto, Bohemia Lynch, Denny LaFlare, Mitch Arizona — and pulled verses out of Estee Nack, Rome Streetz and Flames Dot Malik; one critic called him a future A&R for the way he balanced boom bap against drumless. Since then he has run his own Maitre D'Hôtel project with a guest list that reads like a roll-call of the current East Coast underground: Ransom, Stove God Cooks, RJ Payne, Pro Dillinger, Jae Skeese, 7xvethegenius, Estee Nack, Tha God Fahim. What "No Trepidation" is attached to, nobody says — no album, no statement, no label, no explanation of the title. Three minutes from two people who have earned the benefit of the doubt is enough to justify a listen; anything beyond that would be invention.

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