Agent Sasco (Assassin)
Gully Sit'n
Album · Reggae · 2007
When Assassin (who later renamed himself Agent Sasco) dropped Gully Sit’n in 2007, his horizon was still wide open: His Kanye collaboration (“I’m In It”) was several years off, as were spots with Kendrick (“The Blacker the Berry”) and Freddie Gibbs (“Bandana”). What you hear here is a gruff, dynamic emerging voice: a bit of tough guy (“Gully Sit’n”, “Gun Bag”), a bit of loverman (“Wanna Love You Baby”, the striking quasi-Arabic “Girls Alone”) and a bit of billboard-sized wisdom to keep that moral fiber strong (“Don’t Dis No Man”). And while some of the beats have a slight crossover flavour (“Good Over Evil”, the proto-trap of “We Love the Girls”), the rest of it is raw dancehall—an unfiltered quality that, ironically, made him all the more appealing once his international moment showed up.
Gully Sit'n
Agent Sasco (Assassin)
When Assassin (who later renamed himself Agent Sasco) dropped Gully Sit’n in 2007, his horizon was still wide open: His Kanye collaboration (“I’m In It”) was several years off, as were spots with Kendrick (“The Blacker the Berry”) and Freddie Gibbs (“Bandana”). What you hear here is a gruff, dynamic emerging voice: a bit of tough guy (“Gully Sit’n”, “Gun Bag”), a bit of loverman (“Wanna Love You Baby”, the striking quasi-Arabic “Girls Alone”) and a bit of billboard-sized wisdom to keep that moral fiber strong (“Don’t Dis No Man”). And while some of the beats have a slight crossover flavour (“Good Over Evil”, the proto-trap of “We Love the Girls”), the rest of it is raw dancehall—an unfiltered quality that, ironically, made him all the more appealing once his international moment showed up.
