The rap game is littered with empty words spit by rappers with no real conviction. Check the latest lists, and you’ll find a mind-numbing mix of boring traditionalists and rebels with no cause whatsoever.

Daemon is an outlier. On his latest release, “Credit Check,” the man blazes his own path, challenging shallow secular conventions and religious iconography, poseurs and plastic provocateurs alike with his biting lyricism, This time he gets help from a haunting banger produced by Trackstar the DJ from Run the Jewels. “Credit Check” is part two in an ambitious five-single run from the prolific artist, following “Elevation.”

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