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After building anticipation with a handful of self-released EPs and mixtapes, Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage delivered his official major-label debut, Issa Album. The full-length trap effort featured production from the scene's most in-demand names, like Metro Boomin, Zaytoven, DJ Mustard, and Southside, whose hypnotic atmospherics provided an apt backdrop to Savage's bleak and hedonistic lyrics. Sex, drugs, street violence, and money are the typical themes, with the occasional introspection peppered in to balance the debauched with rare glimpses into his state of mind. More intense and serious than contemporaries like Lil Uzi Vert and Migos, Savage chronicles his rise to fame on "Famous" before getting grim on the dark "Close My Eyes" and "Dead People, " where he raps "Percocets got me in my feelings" and then confesses "I've been drinking syrup/Seeing demons.