Premiere: Lil Jabba - '47' EP

The New York producer's new EP dabbles in grime and Atlanta rap, and caps off a banner year for label Local Action Records.

Capping off a banner year for Local Action is '47', a new EP from New York's Lil Jabba.

Local Action's 2014 has seen them release stellar full-length records from Yamaneko, Slackk, and DJ Q, as well as spawning micro-anthems in their shorter releases from Inkke and Finn.

When we last spoke to Lil Jabba, he'd just dropped a footwork-leaning album called 'Scales' for the label. Earlier this year, he followed it up with the 'Gully' EP for True Panther, but '47' is something of a homecoming for him. While there's still some footwork-informed music on here, the EP mostly sees Jabba bending street styles like grime and Atlanta rap without dropping his oddball melodic sensibility.