On his latest single, "Gimme the Coverage," Rota is not mincing words a blistering, bass-heavy battle cry on a boneheaded day at the pharmacy. Debuts today, the song is the first taste from "Prescriptions," the Rota, and his producer Lucca's full-length album out on Spotify on June 16.
Composed in the heat of a real-life situation, "Gimme the Coverage" turns red tape into red-hot rhymes. Rota, whose lyricism and narrative storytelling channels anger with a razor-sharp blade. But when a prescription snafu left him marooned in the system, he did what artists do best, he put it on wax. Rather than spiraling, Rota spirals upward, reversing the existential space into a piercing commentary on the failures of access and care.
There's no missing the salute here. This vision of Circe is from another time and place, as Lucca and his production portray her. Ethereal synths ebb and flow like fog rolling through midnight streets, but it's that beat, subtly menacing, impossibly heavy, that makes the track thump like an alarm. Together, the pair creates a world where frustration doesn't just fester. It thrives.