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Feeling comfortable just in your own skin is a luxury we often take for granted. Sure, adjusting to a problematic puberty is a fairly common experience, as are life-altering eating habits even later on. But where a good chunk of population at least reaps the benefits of a cis-heteronormative construct, the trans community faces struggles even with a sense of belonging in their own skin, let alone within a still-regressive society.

With that in mind, shift your focus to Locuust. Errrr…actually YoursTruuly. Frankly it doesn’t matter, considering it’s the same person: Austin’s Xóchitl who goes by the aforementioned handles as a rapper and producer, respectively. These dynamic double double-U’s might sound familiar if you caught the Song of the Day spotlight on fellow local hip-hop provocateur Free Hamze a couple weeks back. At just shy of twenty, Xóchitl’s alter egos have already proven remarkable maturity, a saga that continues this weekend with their feature-laden debut full-length, Apparent Incoherence.

Apparent Incoherence is a relentless, risqué eleven-song swarm of poignant candor, crushing beats, clever wordplay and undoubtedly a creative A.I. we can all get behind. You can fall in love with the album live when Locuust and YoursTruuly simultaneously takes the stage 11PM tomorrow night at Hole in the Wall for the release show following openers (consisting entirely of Apparent Incoherence guests) CENSORED dialogue, Kardinal Bloo, Chucky Blk, and khxnid!. And on the LP’s sole “leak” “Acupuncture”, Locuust delivers a lyrical plague that grapples with gender dysphoria and body positivity over YoursTruuly’s Alchemist-esque instrumental, which when combined, provide a thoroughly therapeutic experience akin to the track’s title.

So in light of this week’s forecast, like Locuust says…don’t expect it to “rain in the summer”. But you can expect a downpour of multi-disciplinary talent from this young, unconventional up-and-comer as they enter mainstay status here in the Live Music Capital of the World and far beyond.

Fifty years down the line from its humble block party origins, we can officially classify hip-hop as a legacy genre. And although there are plenty of genre stalwarts who themselves are “over the hill” and still cranking out quality material, there’s no denying rap is a young man’s game. In terms of the latter, it’s especially impactful when the radical energy shared by so much youth gets even more invigorated over a fire beat.

With that, Free Hamze enters the frame. This Lebanese-born Austin-based rapper’s always relished in the exotic Eastern-meets-Western intersection made popular at the turn of the millennium by The Neptunes. And that ethnic-meets-urban international sound is alive and well on Free Hamze’s next record: FREETAPE 4: Renegade Rap – produced entirely by fellow Austinite YoursTruuly, who at just nineteen years old also makes a couple vocal contributions on FT4:RR under their handle Locuust.

Safe to say, it’s a combination that demands to be seen live. And we’re in luck with two opportunities leading up to the weekend; you can catch Hamze and YoursTruuly tomorrow night at DAWA HQ and again 7-9PM this Friday for the EP pop-up release show at the Airport Blvd location of Abe’s Smoke Shop. So to give you a taste of Renegade Rap, turn up the volume on “Two $idez”, which perfectly encapsulates The Alchemist-meets-Benny the Butcher energy of The Plugs I Met that permeates through all of FT4‘s six chambers, and is a tough contender for the hardest thing you’ll hear all week.