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Giffy Pluggo Issues a “Luxury Manifesto” (EP Review)

Chicago, Illinois emcee & ATIP Records founder Giffy Pluggo dropping his 3rd EP ahead of the Douda deluxe. Emerging a couple years ago off his debut mixtape Paid Leave & it’s sequel last summer, put out a deluxe version of his debut album Los Pluggos several months ago followed by Pluggo’s Birthday & Douda respectively. The latter mostly produced by Myles becoming the most beloved entry in his discography thus far, coming back after a few months for a Luxury Manifesto.

The title track produced by Scott Storch will arguably surpass “Casino” in being his biggest hit from the exuberantly cloudy instrumental to the lyrics about having the winning head whereas “Long Distance” featuring Global blends cloud rap & jazz rap taking on more romantic topics. “Livin’ Life” brings a soulful trap vibe to the table expressing gratitude for being in his current position until “Smoke & Stack” featuring BSF Tone 066 pleas for their homies who took risks to come home from the penitentiaries.

Shifting focus away from the conceptual Douda this spring letting the world inside of Giffy Pluggo’s personal life, Luxury Manifesto turns the pressure up for the midwestern Black Soprano Family affiliate to state his aims of fortune ditching the predecessor’s balancing between boom bap & trap in terms of production opting in favor of ditching that traditional east coast sound in favor cloud rap along with jazz rap & chipmunk soul.

Score: 7/10

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