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The beats have few samples and there are no respites.

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Quelle Chris exists, appropriately, just a little outside of this axis.

Its about the way we wield things against one another.

At one point he raps, My mom thought that I was too young to make this song.

Lil Big Manis a coming-of-age record written by someone who hasnt quite come of age yet.

Maxo, an L.A.-based rapper, writes thoughtful, thankfully unsentimental songs about the precipice of adulthood.

Hes a promising artist worth keeping tabs on.

But with no disrespect to Maxo, the most interesting element ofLil Big Manis whats happening behind the boards.

But the producers famously piano-driven beats couldnt spring from anywhere else.