In the music of Paris, The Coup and others, the Bay Area was once an epicenter for politically-gangsta Rap. These were outfits that had something to say, and a fist to assert it. Within the new generation, Fillmore District’s DaVinci seems to embody this same tradition. He’s well-aware of where he comes from socially and musically, and the tattooed rapper places those in messages that are still tangible to hustler-survivors.
DaVinci doesn’t act oblivious to the concerns of his community and sets forth a dynamic lead to direct those energies in the lab. Heard on this year’s The Day The Turf Stood Still release, DaVinci’s confident lyrical style captured commercial and rugged Hip Hop fans alike. DXnext hits the Fillmoe’ with one of its strongest lyrical representatives in close to a decade.
