Head//heart - Mase J (Rap) We really appreciate when a rap artist’s flow perfectly straddles than line between rap and sung melody. Mase J does just that, navigating between those two types of vocals seamlessly, with a focused reedy and resonant vocal that sits perfectly in the melancholy of the instrumental. The instrumental is paired down and set on a loop, which effectively sets the mood while taking a back seat to the lyrics, passing through an EQ filter throughout to give the necessary track movement and structure. Our only complaint is that we want it to be longer—there’s too much good in this track to not give us even more.

Best Lyric: “She said she loved me and I believed that.”