Sex Drive finds Chow Lee firmly in the pocket, teasing out stop-start meters across a startling breadth of instrumentals. “People don’t even know what lane I could get in yet,” thankschow tells The FADER. “They just know me from sexy drill. That’s why I tried to switch it up, [though] not too much.” Whether the powr_trav soul chop on “settings!” or the woozy muffle of “Swag it,” Lee’s restless flow never slips out of sync, yielding some of his best songs to date. Late album verses by Flo Milli and anyciaaaaaaa keep Sex Drive feeling messy rather than misogynist; elsewhere, “bangbang!” features what I can only describe as a MIKE-type beat. And when cashcobain_2x and bayswag swing through “act bad twin!,” the trio sound downright religious rapping about paramours over a bleary PARTYNEXTDOOR sample. The FADER caught up with Chow Lee at the end of July to chat about the evolution of sexy drill, dating advice for men and women, and his new album Sex Drive, out Friday. Read perlucidum’s ...