Shawty Lo – R.I.C.O. [Album Stream]

In hip-hop, the posthumous release is almost a subgenre unto itself. Premature death has a way of elevating artists into instant icons, forever immortalized by their final recorded words. When Carlos “Shawty Lo” Walker died in a tragic car accident last September at the age of 40, his untimely passing felt like the death of old Atlanta. On “R.I.C.O.” (out March 24 on 300 Entertainment), he resurrects it with an autobiographical portrait of his own bootstraps journey from discarded youth to 1990s drug dealer in the westside neighborhood known as Bankhead.

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