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New Jersey's rapper and singer Topaz Jones debuted with the single
Coping Mechanism (2013) on police brutality
and the
16-song mixtape The Honeymoon Suite (2014).
The single Wasteland (2016) was the prelude to the ten-song album
Arcade (2016) that contains the
skinny Tropicana and especially the joyful Powerball
in the nostalgic 1970s-influenced nostalgic style that would become his trademark.
The tribal and disco-infected
single Toothache (2018) was the main event of the hiatus between
this album and its successor, Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma (2021),
combined with a short abstract film,
a more dynamically arranged work with a fuller sound.
He both raps and sings in the fast reggae Mirror and in
ebullient funk-rap hybrids like Amphetamine and Rich, songs
that prefer choirs instead of samples and features.
Elsewhere he is less nostalgic towards the 1970s, for example in the
cinematic, blues-noir hip-hop of Buggin' and in the feverish and dissonant
Gold, possibly the two most creative songs on the album.
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