In their 18-month recording career, Das Racist released two mixtapes and an album. In the last year, Kool A.D. hit us with 10—T-E-N!!—mixtapes. O.K., Peyote Karaoke and Zig Zag Zig have 100 songs apiece, and those last two came only two months apart.

Putting Paradiza Infiniti here is partially an admission that it's impossible to canvas Victor Vazquez's body of solo work, even in the span of a year. It's a representative for all the work—but it's also very possibly the right one. When I headed to Kool A.D.'s Bandcamp to figure out his No. 1 from 2016, I found out he'd dropped this one the day before, and...like...mixtape streaks shouldn't sound this electric this far in. These 77 minutes are the most I've ever heard The Second Latin Rapper to Like the Beatles sound like he's openly enjoying and emphasizing the hugeness of his talent, unselfconsciously tickled by his absurdist humor and word-wizardry. You absolutely shouldn't be able to work Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Pat Sajak, the California Raisins, police brutality, lynching, Breyers ice cream, David Lynch, Wes Craven, Edgar Allan Poe, Beverly Cleary, Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood and Snoop Dogg into a single stream, like he does on "Stir Crazy." Kool A.D.'s blasé side was due for a time-out. –Zach Dionne

Download Paradiza Infiniti at Bandcamp.

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