GREYBOY ALLSTARS, BUSDRIVER (Roseland, 8 NW 6th) Out of South Central LA’s Project Blowed crew, Busdriver has carved a frenetic hiphop niche. His songs are a Masterpiece Ghettotech Theatre and he plays the role of speed-reading auctioneer. Busdriver’s flows are precise and freely associative on RoadKillOvercoat, which was produced by DJ Nobody and Boom Bip. Topics cut quickly from casting agents, cowgirls, oxycodone, and suicide to brunch. “In the Polaroid at a get together/Wearing a corduroy vest sweater,” he “negates the myth of the great black boyfriend.” Busdriver’s spitfire delivery conjugates the grammatical latticework of a sentence like a jazz drummer dices a beat. Content is scattershot, but there’s balance. TRENT MOORMAN

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Busdriver - Casting Agents And Cowgirls