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Pure Beauty, SHIRT’s first album since signing with Jack White’s Third Man Records, shares that interest in elevating the experience of listening to him rap into something bigger.
On the project’s jump-off single, “Flight Home,” SHIRT rhymes over bruising synth lines and viscerally thudding kick drums from Dutch EDM producer and DJ San Holo. He compares himself to the Lox rapper Sheek Louch on a quest to cop Picasso paintings, pivots to address a verse to “all the immigrants and refugees,” and ends his tirade with the declaration, “This rap shit still a sport to me/Kaepernick jersey on, that’s a hero of mine/Stand for something that you zero in on.”