Damn, who are these kids? Rattling off lyrics like they’re going head-to-head with Rakim circa ’88, the Scum team of Insight and T-Ruckus bombard you with verses and a blaxploitated funk guitar loop on “Scum Live”. “Slug Fest” continues the verbal attack, this time over a driving, horn loop that’s as frenetic as Scum’s lyric pacing. And just for good measure, they deliver the coup de grace with the sinister, midtempo “Takin’ No Shorts”: “bendin’ ‘em and sendin’ ‘em/to a level/the devil can’t touch/my eyes clutch/roll with sick cats that smoke dutch.” One of the illest 12″ in recent memory.