Ca$ino is Baby Keem's second studio album, and his first body of work to seriously reckon with the hard lessons of his upbringing in Las Vegas. Courtesy of pgLang hide caption

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Baby Keem has two phones, a fact reiterated so often across his discography that it has become a running joke among fans. Those phones likely reinforce some kind of personal and professional binary — a main for everyday life and a burner for the dealings of the streets, or one for rap business and one for private matters, or the Kevin Gates option : "one for the b****es and one for the dough." Whatever the specific reason may be, the assertion telegraphs a friction between lives, a stratified reality in need of a buffer.…