Youth comes with a certain bravado, an obscene braggadocio - the belief of the housecat that he is in fact a lion. Sol, at the tender age of 22, embodies this youthful grandiosity more fully than most. It is impossible to get through a single Sol track without hearing about how he does something better than you. He works harder than you, he gets higher than you, he fucks better than you, and his flow is tighter than yours. That being said, the kid has a point. At 22 years of age, how many of you have dropped three EP's and two full length records of solid material? Yeah, Sol lacks substance, but so do 95% of the other rappers out there. What he's missing in lyrical quality he more than makes up for in style and production. The beats from the three volume series of EP's, titled Dear Friends, are soaked in smooth R&B goodness, a welcome change from the softcore-gangsta of his first full length, The Ride. Sol has mastered a mid-tempo stride, he never breaks a sweat and never lets anything ruffle his feathers. Better than that, behind the boastful rhymes lurks an intriguing self-awareness, an admission that all his talk is just talk, and if you take it too seriously, the joke's on you. Interested to see where he's taking it next? Check the new material tonight at the album release party for the second LP, Yours Truly, at Neumos. Sol will be playing with his live band and Sabzi from the Blue Scholars will be hosting the event.

Doors open at 8 pm and tickets are $10 online or at Moe Bar. This is one of the tracks from Yours Truly.