B.A.G. (Blimes x Gifted Gab)

One Liner: Kick ass (for their single song, at least) women rappers

Wikipedia Genre: None, but this is hip hop/ rap.
Home: San Francisco and Seattle

Poster Position: 26
Day: Sunday at 3:00
Weekend Two Only

Thoughts:  This seems like some sort of one-off collaboration type thing, as you can't find this band name on Spotify, but you can find each individual artist doing their own thing.  But, when you look up Blimes, you can hear one song that is a collabo between these two artists.  And its pretty damn good.

Hold the fucking phone.  Chill as hell, old school, sampled, boom-bap beat?  I'm in for life.  Then lyrically interesting flows that you can understand and say something both funny and smart?  Is this real?  I am super on board with that sound right there.  Almost 800k streams on Spotify.  Almost a million streams to the video (apparently a Facebook version is at 10 million streams).  My only beef with it is that the track is short.  Add in a good hook/chorus in there, and you'd have a legit radio song.  I also dig the fact that they just freaking rap.  They don't roll around the floor in a g-string, or try to sing a hook, they just throw down and do it well.

Apparently they found each other through some common friends and collaborators, met in Seattle, and maybe got into a fight with someone else and then were jointly impressed with the other's conduct during said scrap?  I found a bit of video where they talk about that, but I can't find any written discussion.

Go to the 10:50 mark, and you'll hear their discussion.  Rooftop party with Macklemore (!?!), but then outside is a massive street fight, and then they leave without fighting.  But then they ended up getting into some random battle with some lady/boyfriend who got mad at them while illegally crossing the street.  Like a literal street brawl with car-head-body slams and people getting knocked out.   And that freestyle?  Gifted Gab is for sure the one with the cleanest rhymes, but they're both good.

As far as I can tell, only that one song available by the two of them.  They have a handful of solo tunes on Spotify - Blimes has a track with Method Man that is solid - Gab has a 2018 EP called Queen La'Chiefah (!?!).  They're pretty good on their own (see Gab's "Orange Skyline" and Blimes' "Hot Damn"), but not as good as that above track.  Some of their solo stuff has weak beats and their rhymes can get uninteresting with trite lyrics.  But if they put out more of that old school hip hop shit, then they should be the Queens of the Festival.