Listen to Kevin Gates, “Tomorrow”

That Kevin Gates is one of the best rappers on Earth right now is a matter of fact to many hip-hop fans. The four mixtapes he dropped in the calendar years 2013 and 2014--both installments of his Luca Brasi series, plus Stranger Than Fiction and By Any Means--are deeply unsettling, disarmingly honest, tireless. But this is 2015, so the increasingly eccentric Baton Rouge rapper has turned that sort of work ethic into a brand that can be pushed in under 140 characters. To back it up, he drops off his latest single, "Tomorrow," which continues his experimentation with Auto-tune. Gates doesn't try to merge the vocal manipulation software wholly into his delivery, the way Future does or T-Pain did. Rather, you're meant to notice it's affected, as in "Put On" or any number of things Wayne did in the second Bush administration. "Low-key in the rental, boo, so please don't tell nobody/She just tapped her homegirl, 'Look, girl, there go Luca Brasi'/Excuse me, bae, I'm on a lot of drugs, I'm out my body."