Surrounded by 10,000 of his closest friends, diamond* doesn’t say a damn thing until he has to. diamond* and Tezzus, SoundCloud’s very own Tasmanian Devil, are the figureheads of the collective; they both signed to Young Thug’s YSL Records last year. With the surprise release of the DJ Holiday-hosted BLING SLIME VØL 1 (shit, I shøuld be crøssing my Ø’s), diamond* makes a case for being the slickest emcee from his city since Baby or Gunna. Comparatively, BLING SLIME is grittier, less focused on melody and more locked in on hard-nosed rapping. When he’s up for it, like on “FØURS” with Young Thug, diamond*’ll hit these wacky ad-libs that fall somewhere between Yoshi and Mickey Mouse: “Waaa!”