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Nearly everything about Chester Watson seems prodigious. A gifted rapper and producer, he’s made an enviable name for himself on the strength of just two mixtapes over two years—and he's only 16 years old. His age has earned him comparisons to Earl Sweatshirt, who dropped his debut mixtape, Earl, at the same age; the two share a similarly dry, somnambulant flow, but the comparisons stop there. “Yetti”, a highlight from Watson's latest, Tin Wooki, makes it clear that his interests are cerebral—hich is to say that he’s into the philosophical side of getting, as the refrain here puts it, “High as fuck.” His talent suggests he's older than his years, as he spits, “The new kid, but he’s archaic with usage/ Scarface of the future, but I be chillin’ with Shakespeare at Hooters” over a beat that suggests Hotline Miami meets Flying Lotus meets "Twin Peaks". Who’s that cool at sixteen?
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