Originally, this column was going to start off discussing the massive gamut of EPs we've received in the last two weeks or so. hasHBrown decided to take a Power Nap, which condenses the best of him into seven tracks plus an instrumental. Ingrid, Beyoncé and Parkwood Entertainment’s secret weapon, balances sexuality and argumentative relationship plateaus with Trill Feels. OneHunnidt had to press pause on rapping about going to Amsterdam and living it up like a European soccer player in time to finish he and Chris Rockaway’s Graffiti Vibes. All of these projects found their way onto the net within a ten day span. All of them are particularly good. At times they’re insular; but at others they let everyone dance around and appreciate them. However, all three of them got shifted down a peg because of two husky, outright mean rap tapes appearing a shocking two days behind one another.

Trae Tha Truth’s Another 48 Hours is his leanest project in years. He had to divide the double-length Tha Truth into two albums — last summer's release that came with busy features, honest portrayals of paranoia, regret and walking through fire; and a winter followup that was bitingly cold and anchored by Trae giving all of himself for the world to see. In his own milieu, Trae will forever come off as an everyman with a gold grill and heavy chains that appear more like championship belts than jewelry. When dealing with a wide range of others, you merely have his stories to run off on. And most of those stories are little motivational speeches that will make you want to lift up cars, potentially punch Donald Trump (beware, the Secret Service won’t like that) and then some. Trae Tha Truth is a story of Americana as much as anybody draped in the American flag after every U.S. victory in the Olympics. Particularly in a sport we’re not known for winning very damn often.

Trae’s victories in the past year haven’t been as well-documented as the losses he’s taken over the years, but it doesn’t bother him. Another 48 Hours leads off with a news report about DJ Screw and how Screw’s influence on music stretched beyond Houston and pulls even further outward, all with the usual cast of characters from Trae’s world.