Vince Ash should have burst into the mainstream with his 2018 debut album, Do or Die. Then just 21, the Hammond, Indiana-born rapper was making smart but hardscrabble music, as familiar to fans of fellow Indiana native Freddie Gibbs as it would have been to a generation brought up on Three 6 Mafia and N.W.A.
Now 23 years old, Ash is back with his second full-length, Vito, premiering in full below ahead of it's release on June 25 via POW Recordings.
It's a steely and uncompromising record, clear from the minimal title track, but it's melodic and soulful enough to warrant constant summer airplay.
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