1/5/17

by: Jake Belanger

Around late April/early May of 2016, I was on Twitter like any other day, and saw that an account I follow by the name of “Based Jesus” had tweeted a link to a video, captioning it, “The hardest white boys alive.” Normally I didn’t click on hip-hop videos/links on Twitter, especially wannabe white kids, as they were rarely any good, but for some reason I watched this one. What I saw was oddly captivating: three white dudes about 18-20 years old, rapping over the most simple (yet crazy) beat I’d heard in awhile. The first verse I heard, and my favorite of the three, spit such different bars, I was dumbstruck. After clicking the SoundCloud link associated with the group, I soon found one of my favorite rap groups ever: Larry League. No, this is not a person calling himself Larry League, this is a group of 3 rappers, sometimes simply going by the Larrys, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. Although I didn’t look much into it that day, I saw a little while later (on May 12th) that they had released a mixtape (3200), and that standout song “La Flare (Freestyle)” was one of the tracks. I immediately listened to it, and heard a few songs that jumped out at me immediately. After listening to the whole tape for a week or two, I fell in love with every single song on the project. I soon after downloaded “Dirty Dingy,” and found it was a great project as well. On October 7th, they released an EP called “Put To Rest,” and of course I got that immediately, finding great joy in hearing new music from them. All in all, they have 3 main projects. This is just my opinion, as they released 3 other projects before Dirty Dingy, but they were not as organized or full as the other three.

The group consists of Larry Loudpack, Randy (sometimes known as Randy Provolone), and SenseiATL. The group has produced several songs on their projects together, and Sensei has produced some on his own as well. The producers they buy their other beats off of make mainly trap beats, but they are much better than the majority of trap beats out today. Personally, I think Sensei is the best of the three at rapping, but Larry and Randy are both very good. They don’t recruit too many people for features, but when they do, they’re generally pretty good. There is a fourth Larry, going by the name of DJ Dolphin T**** (can’t say it in a school article), who raps in a way that at first I didn’t enjoy, but eventually grew to like his verses. All in all, the Larrys are an extremely young and talented group, and have a huge future ahead of them if they play their cards right. I would definitely recommend that everyone listen to the 3200 project, as they have beats by Sensei, the Larrys as a group, Danny Wolf, HurtboyAg, and more, as well as the fact that every song on the project is great, and it contains some of their best verses.