Alright, listen. If you’ve been fiending for that raw, stripped-back Denzel Curry energy, this is your moment. He and Kenneth Blume, the producer you used to know as Kenny Beats, are back together for ii, their first full project since 2020’s UNLOCKED. This ain’t some polished, overproduced studio album. They recorded the whole thing on a Roland SP-404 and a cheap mic. That’s it. That’s the setup. And honestly, that’s exactly why it’s gonna hit so hard.The first taste is “DIFFERENCE,” and they brought Yebba on the hook. She’s got that voice that cuts through everything, and it pairs wild with Zel’s intensity.

Plus you got JPEGMAFIA and Westside Gunn in the building, so you already know the features are gonna be nasty. Blume said it best: they start every project on opposite sides of a coin and fight their way to the center. You can hear that battle in the music. It’s raw, it’s real, it’s growth.And it ain’t just the album. Zel is about to be everywhere. He’s already got The Scythe supergroup, he was just out with Deftones, and now he’s opening for Knocked Loose across North America this fall. That’s a heavy tour. Meanwhile Blume is on a producer hot streak like no other, working with Geese, Rico Nasty, and whoever else is smart enough to get him in the studio. This is one of those moments where the culture wins, and we all get new heat to blast.