Watch Mac DeMarco and Kenny Beats make “Italian-American gangster rap”

Mac DeMarco and Kenny Beats tried to make an “Italian-American gangster rap” freestyle on the most recent episode of the producer’s sequence The Cave.

The YouTube sequence sees Beats and a visitor, together with the likes of Slowthai, Thundercat and Danny Brown previously, make a track from scratch.

Requested by the producer what he wished to make, DeMarco replied: “We’re smoking cigars. I’m 25 per cent Italian. Individuals speak so much about ‘gangster rap.’ Plenty of Italian-People within the motion pictures are gangsters. How come there’s no Italian-American gangster rap?”

“Are you about to bar up?” Beats mentioned. “You possibly can’t rap, Mac!” The indie musician responded: “Completely not, however I can attempt.”

Watch Beats and DeMarco try to carry their “Italian-American gangster rap” observe to life under.

Final 12 months DeMarco gave an replace on his goals for brand spanking new music, saying he has no plans to launch new materials whereas the coronavirus pandemic is ongoing.

“I’ve been writing songs, however the thought of doing a full document after which the concept of that document popping out in the course of a pandemic digitally solely, after which there’s no prospect of ever performing this stuff until it’s on a dwell stream or one thing..,” he mentioned.

“I’m nervous we’re going to return out of coronavirus, and there’s going to be 9,000 albums which might be all like: [Singing] ‘Oh quarantine, child, child’.”

In the meantime, Beats launched a brand new collaborative challenge with Denzel Curry in March. ‘Unlocked 1.5’ was a reimagining of the pair’s 2020 collaboration ‘Unlocked’ and featured contributions from Arlo Parks, Joey Bada$$, Benny The Butcher and extra.