In recent months, he released a pair of strong albums - “ Highway Robbery” (Team Early/The Artist), a collaboration with the wheezy Freeway, and “ What Happened to the World” (The Artist), a characteristically low-key album that was, depending on how you looked at it, filled with either pride or sadness. A onetime drug dealer who converted to Islam, he made music that bridged the gulf between wisdom and the struggles it took to earn it see especially his standout 2005 album, “ The Jack Artist,” and also “ Tear Gas,” from 2009. The Jacka got his start as a member of the Mob Figaz crew. Fifth Harmony Worth It: Give it to me, Im worth it Baby, Im worth it Uh huh Im worth it Gimme. For more than a decade, until he was fatally shot on Monday night, the Jacka was one of those stars, a rapper who, with his somber, hardened lyrics, served as the scene’s de facto conscience. More than most hip-hop scenes, the Bay Area has created its own ecosystem of local heroes. On this sharp EP - only the woozy “Memo” is a misfire - the trio is jubilant and propulsive, rewriting dance-floor rhythms into daytime funk. Alexander, the bassist Mikey Goldsworthy and the keyboardist Emre Turkmen. WORTH IT lyrics by Fifth Harmony: Chorus / Give it to me Im worth it / Baby Im worth it / Uh huh. This slice of Rick Astley-esque pop-soul appears on “Y & Y EP” (Interscope), the debut American EP by Years & Years, which consists of Mr. “I want desire/’cause your love only gets me abused,” he sings, though he doesn’t sound frustrated at all. Worth It (Levianth Remix) Intro: Camila & Male Voice: Baby Im worth it Pre-Chorus: Normani: Uh huh, you see me in the spotlight. It takes the template of a more faithful group like Disclosure and polishes it up a touch, emphasizing the synthesizer melody, flattening out the drums and adding a vocalist, Olly Alexander, with a burr-less voice.
The logical end to the revival of 2-step garage as a British pop force in recent years is a song like the blissful “ Desire,” by the ascendant London trio Years & Years.