Old School Beats is Jaxon Evans' deep bow to the Los Angeles hip-hop scene that changed music forever. Each of the twenty-four tracks is named after a real street or avenue — the same blocks where young men hauled crates of records to park jams, where b-boys spun on cardboard, and where 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 to Rosecrans — these are the avenues that built a culture. Now they're beats.