How Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Section.80’ Shaped Hip-Hop Up-And-Comer La Reezy’s Debut Album, ‘Skiddle Bandana’

For La Reezy, the lyrical mutant birthed in New Orleans, where the spirits of Lil Wayne and YoungBoy run laps around the city, he’s slowly embracing his stardom while remembering the person at the center of it all: Khayree.

“My Zoom name is Khayree, and I didn’t even realize that,” he says days before embarking on a multi-city tour with Chance the Rapper.

“I’m still thrifting.

I’m still bike-riding.

I’m still enjoying myself and allowing the music to be a vessel of what Khayree is thinking about.

I get imposter syndrome the most when I’m not being human enough.

So it’s still keeping Khayree alive.” Despite his superhuman wordplay, La Reezy, you can say, is having his Spider-Man moment.

With praise from Kendrick Lamar, J.

Cole and Tyler, the Creator, Reezy had the holy trinity of rap co-signs before he was even old enough to legally drink.

Mixtapes such as Welcome La Reezyana Vol.

1 showcased his promise and dexterity, while his debut album, Skiddle Bandana , prided itself on colorful storytelling, charisma and the unwavering charm of a young Black man growing up in real time.

With Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80 in mind, Reezy scribbled down everything he saw from the steps of his mother’s house and gave fans a front-row seat to New Orleans.

“Melanate It” is a flavor bomb where Black pride reigns supreme, while “Family Bizzy” is an ode to his relatives and how they shaped his beginnings.

“I know I don’t have it all figured out,” he acknowledges.