Across 135th Street – Rap Cover Versions… Now With Less Rapping!

You may be familiar with the unfortunate YouTube-popularized phenomenon of the ironic rap cover version (e.g. acoustic guitar-accompanied singer-songwriter renditions of *2 Chainz* songs, or *Gucci Mane* interpreted via pan flute). The latest edition of “Chairman” Jeff(erson) Mao’s [Across 135th Street](http://www.egotripland.com/chairman-mao-across-135th-street-rap-cover-versions-audio/ "ego trip") programme seeks to cleanse these superfluous sounds from your consciousness. *Rap Cover Versions… Now With Less Rapping* features largely instrumental reinventions of hip hop songs performed with affection and exuberance for the source material. (Because that’s traditionally why folks do covers in the first place.