His musing, wry style has gathered resonance as he's developed as an artist, and this year, every off-the-cuff thought he shared cut to the bone. Starlito has had a quietly triumphant year Step Brothers 2 is his third stellar full-length of 2013. Following along with the long 'O' sounds in a stretch of rhyme like 'On the low I been unfocused, I'm just hoping no one notices/ Trying to play my cards right, but things got wild as the Joker is/ The things I love I kill for, call my bluff with no poker chips/ got this chip on my shoulder which/ Brings me to this lick I'm about to hit' (from 'Caesar and Brutus') points you toward the subtlety of Lito's writing, which never halts the force of his rapping. Trip makes his way from point A to B by stringing sometimes-dumb puns together, as in 'Life is sweet, but still sucks, like a Sno Cone' ('4x4 Relay'), while Lito raps in gorgeously accumulating run-on sentences, dotted with musical phrasings and internal rhymes. They elbow out the beats, blotting out the empty spaces, rap for 32 bars or more they have too much to say, and it's exhilarating.įor the friendly-competition purposes of Step Brothers 3, I'll observe that Lito gets Trip on this one, just barely. 'Servin, servin like we never heard of cops/ Prefer to handle my business personally -you want this work or not?' raps Starlito on '28th Song'. 'My ink pen drip icicles,' Don Trip says on 'Paper, Rock, Scissors'. 'No chorus but it's goin' on like four minutes,' Starlito says wryly on 'Paper, Rock Scissors,' and many of these songs just go on and on, in the best and most exciting sense, both rappers dreaming up vivid phrasing and rapping for audiences of one. What you do get: Two of the most honest writers in rap working together at maximum comfort and confidence.Īs with the first Step Brothers, Lito and Trip largely don't bother with hooks. What you don't get this time around: the bottled-lightning sound of two rappers falling in love with each other's ideas in real time. They spent money on beats from Drumma Boy, Sonny Digital, and other in-demand producers, and honed their songs and concepts. But Lito and Trip are shrewd and deliberate, which means that Step Brothers 2 is out now, two years later, and unlike its predecessor, it's available for retail. Other rappers might have rushed out a sequel within six months, to strike while the iron is hot. It was the most popular thing either of them had ever released fair or not, they learned the world paid more attention to them together than to either of them alone.

' the concept of the camaraderie between two strangers that were so quirky in their own regard that they wouldn't gel with anyone else,' Starlito told The Fader. The mixtape they made, 2011's Step Brothers, took its title from the then-three-year-old Will Ferrell/John C.

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