Announced just a few days prior to its release, 21 Savage ’s new album, What Happened to the Streets , documents the subtle maturation of an unblinking Atlanta rapper whose deadpanned threats are a prickly veneer around a grief-stricken survivor mentality. Tracks like the somber “Big Stepper” delve into the pain under the pomp, detailing struggles animating the put-downs we expect to encounter in this work. But the news you’re most likely to hear about the album revolves around Drake , who delivers his only guest appearance outside his OVO camp of the year in the gritty, skeletal “Mr Recoup.” It’s the lesser of the Drake jams using the naming convention, a lankly little brother to Savage Mode II ’s yearning “Mr. Right Now” and Mary J. Blige’s maudlin My Life II “Mr. Wrong.” Like

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