Old School Beats is Jaxon Evans' deep bow to the hip-hop scenes that changed music forever — rooted in both Los Angeles and New York. Each of the twenty-four tracks is named after a real street or avenue: the same blocks of South Central and Compton where young men hauled crates of records to park jams, and the South Bronx corners where b-boys spun on cardboard and the SP-1200 drum machine first punched through car speakers on summer evenings.

The album pulls from the same sonic DNA as the legends: fat breakbeats sampled from rare funk 45s, warm Rhodes licks, deep-pocket bass lines borrowed from Parliament and Sly Stone, and the kind of dusty, atmospheric hiss that only comes from real analog gear. This is boom bap before boom bap had a name.

From the Crenshaw strip to the Grand Concourse, from Pico Boulevard to Sedgwick Avenue — these are the avenues that built a culture on both coasts. Now they're beats.