LOC SLEEPY is an emerging Nashville-based emcee. His latest track “John Wayne” pairs his dexterous and densely worded bars referencing random pop culture ephemera, including King Kong, Jersey Shore‘s GEICO, The Mighty Ducks, and John Wayne, and street shit with a menacing, yet hook-driven production featuring skittering, tweeter and woofer rattling trap triplets, eerily twinkling keys.

What caught my immediate attention was this: “John Wayne” is rooted in the energy of an emerging artist, who seems ready to take over the entire world, one emcee battle, one bar, one hook at a time if he had to.