The Encore

Keeping up with Curren$y’s music can be a full-time job, but the New Orleans native’s quality is so consistent that the effort is worth it; the reward is as nice as his sugary-sweet Southern drawl. Another difficult task is keeping up with his ever-expanding cast of collaborators, but the pot-loving poet makes this relatively easy by returning to old favourites as often as he works with new voices. On 2024’s <i>The Encore</i>, he reunites with Oakland-bred DJ.Fresh for their third project together, and their second of the calendar year. <i>The Encore</i> follows <i>The Tonite Show The Sequel</i>, which the duo created earlier in 2024, and <i>The Tonite Show</i>, from 2020. Curren$y doesn’t do anything spectacularly different on this project than on other albums with Fresh, though the nuances are in his show-stopping one-liners. On “Top of the Morning”, he spits over a sultry, horn-laced head-nodder, diving into two of his three favourite topics: women and cars (weed being the third): “The game change fast, you getting dressed too slow wit’ yo lame ass/Drivers in the other lane done blown past/Ain't no second or third place, there's only dead last.” Next, he describes the lady he’s courting in classic Spitta fashion: “The dress was see-through, on that lady like a champagne glass.”