Plush Sanches’ Reporting Live Part. 1, dropped under DaOne Records, is a raw, unfiltered window into a rapper locked into his own orbit. Across its six main tracks, Plush doubles down on repetition, inside slang, and a vocal delivery that rides somewhere between reckless intoxication and razor-sharp confidence.
The album’s opener, “Reporting Live Part. 1 Intro (Live)” comes alive with echoey studio chatter, a behind-the-curtain nod that tunes into a pirate frequency before the real show begins. Then “Tiny Giant” turns up with a loose, almost dazed rhythm. Plush tosses in surreal flexes, “Way they blit like Harry Potter / Make them disappear,” using fiction to exacerbate the height of street violence. Beneath the swagger, though, he raps, “Still they change on me,” peeling back the paranoia and hurt, hinting at betrayal cloaked under diamond talk and drugged-out braggadocio.
Midway, “Phantom Night” pulls listeners into a darker orbit. The production turns haunting with a bass-heavy landscape as Plush’s deep voice and looseness build menace. He sneers, “Stones keep on shining in the dark,” a jewel metaphor that doubles as defiance, as the light under constant shadow, persistence despite enemies “hating since the start.” His comparisons sting with cartoonish absurdity (“These ni–as Teletubbies”), ridiculing rivals while stacking his own legend.
The closer, “Dark Horseman,” is Plush at his most fantastical. The track leans on smoky horns and sultry blues touches while Plush slips into a dreamworld of Peter Pan shadows, beanstalk climbs, and NBA crossovers. The surreal blends with the material grind, his constant chase for “that bag” woven into mythic imagery.
By the end, Reporting Live Part. 1 is a heady dispatch from Plush’s psyche, part diary, part cartoon, part block report. It’s chaotic, brash, and still poetic with the way life gets. Check out the music videos, visualisers and the rest of the tracks by Plush Sanches on YouTube.
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Review by: Naomi Joan