Nines - Crop Circle (2018)

A series of mixtapes documenting life on the hardest streets of North West London led rapper Nines to a deal with XL Recordings and a full debut—2017’s One Foot Out—that struck commercial pay dirt. This follow-up is a thoughtful, capricious study of a man juggling that success with loyalties to his past. Working a novelist’s sense for small but effective details around spare, hypnotic beats, Nines is full of triumphalism on “Oh My” and “Haze.” However, he’s most engaging during his reflective moments, wrestling with the pull of the streets on “Pictures in a Frame” and offering a stark portrait of prison time on “Cash Interlude.”

Tracklist:
01. Nines - Pictures in a Frame
02. Nines (feat. RAY BLK & Skrapz) - Rubber Bands
03. Nines (feat. J Styles) - Trapstar
04. Nines (feat. Tee Supreme) - Liz
05. Nines (feat. Fundz) - Eagles
06. Nines (feat. Fundz) - Haze
07. Nines - Same Way
08. Nines - I See You Shining
09. Nines (feat. SL, Yung Fume & Tiggs Da Author) - Oh My
10. Nines - Tony Soprano
11. Nines (feat. Dave) - Venting
12. Nines (feat. Trapstar Toxic) - Re-Up
13. Nines (feat. Haile WTSRN) - Make It Up 2 U
14. Nines (feat. Likkle T, Fatz, Storm, Fundz & Streetz) - Line Of Fire Pt. 5
15. Nines - Cash Interlude
16. Nines - Outro