JAG

With a focus on breathless flow and thoughtful wordplay, California MC Jag delivers socially charged rhymes that touch upon real-life issues and tales of hardened street life similar to fellow Los Angelenos YG and Nipsey Hussle. Emerging in the late 2000s, he issued a prolific string of mixtapes including the Scattered Thoughts series and 2015's Before the Flat Top. After losing his voice for an extended stretch, he returned in 2017 with Dalton Ave, which started a prolific streak that found the rapper issuing at least one effort per year, including 2018's 2700 and 2020's The Mission.