Portland rapper Yeat rode viral online success to a major-label deal, and with debut studio album Up 2 Më he amplifies all the different components that made him stand out from the pack when he was starting out. His production is saturated and colorful, decorating trappy drums with burning synths and menacing bell samples rather than the usual piano loops and generic dreamy atmospheres so many mainstream rap hits rely on. His vocal style is a throaty gurgle doused in Auto-Tune, bending melodic hooks into distorted bleats on the fast-switching flows of "Money So Big" and slowly squeezing out syllables over the blown-out bass hits of "Ya Ya." Viral single "Gët Busy" is one of the better examples of Yeat's strange powers coming together. A tense beat made up of droning synths and nervous hi-hats is all the rapper needs to launch into a stream of tight, sometimes bizarre lyrics that range from puffed-up club scenes to lines about being so high he feels like a snail. It's funny, weird, and infectious, like the best of Up 2 Më. Uncommon production choices and Yeat's laid-back but surprisingly off-center personality make these tracks a breath of fresh air in a commercial rap landscape where artists and songs can sometimes feel interchangeable.