"In the 2000s, there was an extremely popular manga called Nana, where nothing all that important happened. It was a melancholic comedy about two new friends in their early twenties, both named Nana. They spend most of their time in Tokyo hanging out at bars, rocking Vivienne Westwood, working jobs, playing music, and balancing on and off romantic relationships. It was a detailed and messy character study that felt like falling in deeper with a friend group with every new issue."
"I sometimes get a similar feeling when I listen to the new-age cloud rap of Dolo2000. The Southern California rapper and producer has been dropping casually dreamy tapes and loosies full of fragmented everyday situations-hitting parlays with his friends, smoking weed, going to shows-like a Curren$y raised on SoundCloud. His new album, Let's Meet At Junes, continues to open up his world with foggy scenes that capture a snapshot of being young, fly, and a little aimless in Los Angeles."
Dolo2000 crafts a casually dreamy, new-age cloud rap sound that unfolds as fragmented vignettes of everyday youth in Los Angeles. The music leans on lowkey sing-rap and varied vocal effects to render scenes of bad dates, empty hookups, drunken parties, and quiet longing. Specific tracks like "at_the_club_its_so_meaningless" portray nights of going through the motions, while "secretlab" uses heavy overlapping ad-libs to turn small details—an Undercover sweater, letting go of a relationship—into surreal, tactile moments. The overall mood is melancholic, atmospheric, and character-driven rather than plot-focused.
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