Listen: K-BETA's "Pakistan" - Washington City Paper

Listen: K-BETA’s “Pakistan”

by Marcus J. Moore August 10th, 2012October 8th, 2020

It’s been two years since Virginia MC K-BETA dropped his excellent Inglorious Beta LP, a dynamic 16-song set of fierce rhymes and tough instrumentals. Since then, however, the rapper had been quiet on the music front.

BETA returns with “Pakistan,” a new single produced by InnerLoop label head J-Scrilla. Here, the rapper sounds comfortable amid restless funk percussion, his complex alliterations as sharp as ever: “I create tension thick enough to stick a fork through/Spit more, get more twisted than a corkscrew.”

BETA will drop a new project later this year; this song isn’t slated to be on it. DJBooth has the single.

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