Andrew Veeder on August 19th, 2015

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Los Angeles rapper Rene Brown recorded her first track entitled “Home” on her laptop and Skype headset while deployed on a 15-month tour in Afghanistan, and in the past year or so, she’s toured continents with Schoolboy Q and released a solid debut EP, “Keep To Myself.” Originally from Jackson, Miss., Brown has been writing poetry since she was 10, and you can tell in the precision of her delivery. She’s a great technical rapper, be it rapid-fire or drawn out, casual or ferocious, in the way that Eminem or Kendrick Lamar jump all over a beat and cram different amounts of words in this part of the 4-count as opposed to that part, yet you can hear everything they’re saying. She shows it off in her new track “Millions,” the first song from her forthcoming new EP, “The Wave.” It was produced by Ducko McFli, and has a live band feel over a hard beat with a soulful vibe, as Brown jumps all over this beat, splitting lines like, “Ain’t no tellin what this life lost / competition is a stain you can’t wipe off / And I’m proof, words stay true / Always playing cool, never playing by the rules / Man this shit ain’t news, I’ve been busy paying my dues,” and, “I want so many women / So much ends, the shit don’t make sense / There’s a million ways to make mills, I confess that’s just how I feel.” “The Wave” is set for release this fall.

||| Stream: “Millions”

||| Also: Check out the video for her 2014 single, “Chasing Dreams”: