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story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd photo Ariel Zambelich

After a dry spell and several months moping about it, a couple things happened in Roach Gigz’ life that got him back to rapping. First, he totaled his scraper and had to cop a shitty replacement to get around. “I ended up buying a bucket from my cousin for a hundred dollars, a really messed up car,” he says. Second, Gigz’ girl got pregnant. Hence, his mixtape Buckets and Booty Callz, a tightly wound memoir by a dude whose hardgoing party lifestyle began before he had hair on his face, and whose tales read like new era Salinger: Middle school, ‘member?/ I was the wild child/ Orlando had a temper/ I used to take sluts to the cuts with my cousin/ And the parties with the hoes/ Freaking bitches on the flo’/ ‘Til the teachers told me no.

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