First Spin: Hot Sugar & Haleek Maul's 'I don't wanna b judged'

October 26, 2012 – Hot Sugar (producer Nick Koenig) first popped up on my radar when he contributed the foggy, tone-setting opening rap track "Sleep" to the Roots' excellent and severely underrated undun last year. The central tenet of Koenig's beatmaking approach involves treating found sounds like classic hip-hop breaks ready to be chopped, looped, and contorted however he sees fit. …
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