First, Vintage Lee established herself as a PiMP. Now, she’s making sure everyone knows she’s a PiMP who knows how to play – and win – the hip-hop game.
Two years after her debut album, the big-baller, shot-caller Roxbury rapper has shared her sophomore record Draw 2 (yes, that’s partially a nod to UNO), along with a short film that teases various tracks from the tape. Audacious as ever, Draw 2 boasts Lee’s signature witty lyrical style (“I’m not a lawn chair / I cannot fold, aight?” she snaps on “Coach Lee”), but her undefeatable approach to life on the new project has a very specific purpose beyond flexing pun-y wisecracks.
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“Draw 2 has different meanings. I really like playing UNO, but the project is also my second body of work,” she tells THE FADER. “It also has two sides to it, one is more serious and the other is more fun. Sonically, I sound older on Draw 2 and more mature than I did on my debut, PiMP. The project means more now than it did before now that my brother has passed. He was there for the making of some of these songs and was always by my side. It’s like I’m still here able to breathe so I gotta go four times harder with this life thing than I already was and do the things he’d wanna see me doing. He wanted me to win.”
And win Vintage Lee does, from the first loose notes of “Malibu,” to the final bass beats of album closer “Lowski.”
Check out Draw 2 below, and catch Vintage Lee at Brighton Music Hall with Tdrape, Donald Grunge, Valley, and Mizzie Ca$h on October 13.