New Music Critique: ZayReal

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ZayReal
Contact: [email protected]

Web: linktr.ee/zayreal

Seeking: Booking, Film/TV
Style: Hip-Hop

Georgia’s own ZayReal shared music from his El Bandito album. The title track was enticing, with a Spanish guitar over trap beats, and clever lyrics with references in Spanish and English. (Our basic Español could decipher “pistols,” “amigos” and “bilingual.” Unfortunately the vocals were not recorded well. “Long Way” features a great chopped-up organ sample, and the emcee annunciates every word. “They Said” is quite the single, with a guest singer to offer auto-tuned levity. Zay comes in for the final third of the song with fast rhymes and confident delivery. This track seems like it’s from a different artist and different album—we’d like to hear ZayReal lean more into the Spanglish hip-hop lane.