After venturing across genres with 2020's
Easy Money Baby, 2021 sees Puerto Rican MC
Myke Towers return to his pure rap roots with
LYKE MIKE, a collection of trap anthems. Features are few and far between; instead,
Towers lets his relentless flow carry the album to its climax, barraging beats from Smash David,
DJ Luian,
Mambo Kingz, and Fara. Though the project's 23 tracks keep their pure-trap ethos close to heart,
Towers still has plenty of tricks to pull: "PIN PIN" offers a flashy interpolation of
Tommy Olivencia's salsa-led "Periquito Pin Pin," while in "BALAS LOCAS," the MC enters the drill arena alongside
Jon Z. Compounded with potent personal stories and lashing brags, the tape's lyricism is just as you'd expect from PR's finest: focused, razor-sharp, and rich in biography. ~ David Crone