babytron

The best NBA players outwork their peers in practice. They shoot more jump shots, run extra sprints, hit higher reps in the weight room. Since emerging as the breakout star of Detroit rap trio Shittyboyz, BabyTron has approached recording projects like Sleeve Nash and Luka Troncic (both puns on NBA all-stars past and present) with a similar, almost athletic devotion. He spends most days in the studio, stringing together non-sequiturs of generation-spanning references to NBA players and pop culture over the breakneck, electro-leaning beats that define the ShittyBoyz’s sound. Each of the four projects he’s released in 2021— two solo and one with each member of ShittyBoyz — offers sharper, more hilarious punchlines about lucrative digital scams, designer clothes, women, weed, and wock (also r...