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“18 with a baby, I wasn’t old enough
I made my family eat they words, I had to show them somethin’”

Nef The Pharoah – Old Enough
(From Old Enough; 2022)


Whoa na. For O.G members of #NefHive, Old Enough is the grown-up Come Pick Me Up – an introspective victory lap of a song. Nef The Pharoah is very hit and miss, but when he’s on form he’s a billion times better than all those dullard Yaseo The Ruler-core rappers who’ve been popular up Northern California the past couple of years. Here’s proof in the form of a playlist: Nef’s top five slaps from 2020 to 2022.

A moment of silence for Nef’s dreadlocks. He chopped ’em off and now he looks like a goon from a J-Diggs video.