


Here, the producer known for his distinct style of heavily vintage samples and soulful loops jumps excitedly between fully formed songs and offhand ideas.

Pop landscape be damned, though, a beat tape is exactly what 9th Wonder presents with his new, thirty-six-track instrumental album, Zion. In fact, few producers in 2016 can make people drool about a beat tape at all, not with mainstream hip-hop's dependence on a "pop star" rapper at the core of every song, album, or video. Few living hip-hop producers can make people drool with the words "beat tape" like 9th Wonder.
