LNDN DRGS Gets Better With New Project ‘Burnout 3’

Compoton rapper Jay Worthy and Canadian producer Sean House have returned as LNDN DRGS to release their new project Burnout 3.

We heard from the duo less than a year ago with their collaboration with A$AP P On the Boards. Jay Worthy has been consistent the last couple of years, releases a collaborative project with G Perico and Cardo mid-2017, not to mention the other two Burnouts. The new iteration of the series is the sharpest of the three.

Sean House is comfortable as ever here. Beats soaked in West Coast R&B samples, recreating the feel of when G-Funk came onto the scene. The Warren G is palpable. Opposite that, Worthy recalls an Ice Cube a la AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted when I hear him spit. His rapping has gained insight with time. Burnout 3 tells the most concise stories, as opposed to just bars for bars sake, which he is proficient at two. ‘If a bitch gon pay, cant’ walk away from pimpin/ It’s real they ain’t giving out no pension/’ he says on the slow burning final track ‘Now I Am Here,’ capping off the party on the first six and a half minutes into a beautiful piano sample. It’s a track that is very reminiscent of the space explored on the first iteration, all super slow ambient samples arranged and looped into a strange carnival-esque slow motion images of LA. It feels like one slow blunt to the face at the end of the night.

The presentation is something that’s attractive, too. Both Burnout 2 and Burnout 3 have both been released as one amorphous track, and the only place you can find a track listing would be the SoundCloud page. This is sorta controlling in an interesting way, forcing us to only concentrate on the project as a single entity, not to be distracted by names of tracks or features or producer credits. They don’t want you to concentrate on the particulars when the music’s so good, they want you to feel that shit.

Listen to the whole project above.