“This is about unity. True unity. There’s enough space and room and food for all of us.”
If you follow Vallejo MC, songwriter, label owner, entrepreneur, and all-around innovator LaRussell, you know what they’re about: working nonstop to build a community of love and shared wealth. Released this past October, the artist’s second album Cook Together, Eat Together (in collaboration with producer Tope) directly embodies that vision, delivering 10 easy-flowing, soulful, groovy tracks—plus a couple collaborations with local rap royalty E-40 (on an inventive revision of “Sprinkle Me) and fellow Vallejo rapper Nef the Pharaoh. So we’ll just call ourselves out and say this definitely should’ve made our list of the best hip hop from the Bay Area in 2021.
