Lil Ugly Mane – “Pink & Rose”

Lil Ugly Mane, the onetime SoundCloud-rap pioneer, has been deep in his own zone lately, releasing tracks that fit into no particular genre and making decisions — like playing an entire festival set with an animatronic puppet as his backing band — that nobody else would make. Ever since the 2021 self-released album Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern, Lil Ugly Mane has mostly been releasing one-off tracks on Bandcamp, and a lot of those tracks are really, really good. This past weekend, he came out with two new ones, and I’m frankly a little stunned by both of them.