Streetlamp Tales

A moody hip hop cut like this sounds like it could have come straight out the late ’90s underground. But 20-year-old producer Bagir wouldn’t even have been ten by that point. His smokey beat on “Babylonian Nights” is comprised of a jazzy instrumentation flipped on the mysterious tip, all surreal and dangerous. Meanwhile, Toronto’s Sense I matches that with a picturesque, streetlamp-lit tale full of dense rhymes, a smooth voice and a chill delivery. If dudes like this were in the spotlight more often, maybe backpacking would never have become a dirty word.

The song is part of an unfinished album from 2007. We have no idea why it remains unreleased, but now it’s free for y’all! Bagir, who resides in Virginia and has played the djembe since he was a kid, was featured on our last mixtape and you can be sure to hear more diverse styles from him around here in the future. (Photo by Patrick Boury.)