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It’s a brief, loose, freewheeling set of tracks, most of which hover around two minutes apiece-and the intentionally half-assed titles like “Track 01” and “DIET_” reinforce the spontaneity of it. If Unlocked is what these two can do in the span of a single calendar day’s work, their combined potential feels limitless. But after the Connecticut-born, L.A.-based beatmaker built up a CV of production for the likes of 03 Greedo, Rico Nasty and Sada Baby, it was probably only a matter of time before he crossed paths with Curry. Its release unannounced, the eight-track album is the product of a 24-hour recording session whose urgency and spontaneity surges through its 18 minutes. It’s a glorious age of publicity stunts and singles-chart bombardment, and the end result has been a nonstop parade of surprises-but then again, when surprises are the norm, are they really surprises at all? Unlocked, the new collaboration between Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats, both is and isn’t. Thanks to a combination of Billboard changing its model to count streams as sales, piracy and a short-attention-span marketplace that makes it easier for viral video stars to steal the public’s attention, the last five years have yielded: no fewer than three surprise Kendrick Lamar albums, a month-long sequence of seven-track records produced by Kanye West in Wyoming, two-hour Migos and Drake records, a 20-minute Vince Staples album and 15 minute of Tierra Whack. Standard-length, early announcement hip-hop records feel like a quaint relic of a bygone era.