Yes, you are reading the credits correctly. The Michelangelo of beat sculptors, Pete Rock, is connecting with Boot Camp Clik ruffnecks Smif N Wessun, otherwise known as Tek and Steele. And it’s not just limited to this track: Pete Rock & Smif N Wessun will be releasing a full-length album, Monumental, on June 28th via Duck Down. On “Prevail,” Rock’s signature sleepy horns are laced over a metallic snare crack and bleary bass line. It’d be another Rock standard if it wasn’t for the switch-a-roo he pulls halfway through the track, when the producer flips the beat into a relaxed drum loop and a sample that sounds eerily like Raekwon’s classic “Criminology.” And who appears alongside Smif N Wessun? Raekwon himself, laid back, delivering verses that swerve through the beat like an expert driver in heavy traffic.

via RCRD LBL