Ace Hood at Trees

Organic is a word not normally used to describe a rapper from the south. But when you have a one-of-one artist as naturally gifted and fruitfully independent as Ace Hood, the adjective is pretty apropos. There aren’t many MCs walking around with 6% body fat, a wellness agenda, and the courage to leave DJ Khaled’s We The Best label and gift his fans a three composition series…free of charge. But when you spit infernos like a dragon fighting for his life, there is no one else to bet on but yourself. Although Ace Hood’s career began in a late aughts rap era dominated by the ascendance of Trap rap, your average D-Boy rapper is not his peer. Ace’s pen game, wordplay and array of semiautomatic deliveries transcends his southern crib. While fans hail granite-hard classics like “Hustle Hard” and “Bugatti,” the MC, if you must label his music, prefers the word “Free.” The glory of freedom can be heard throughout his first post-We The Best release, a trilogy entitled, Trust The Process. Part 1 of TTP dropped last Fall, anchored by infectious tracks––all produced by Foreign Teck of The Meckanics––that were equally motivational (“Life After”) and confessional (“To Whom It May Concern”). The 13-song opus garnered over 30 million streams and spawned a 44-city Trust The Process Tour (domestic and abroad), which grew Hood’s fan base as far as Australia.

– musicfarm.com