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This playable music video conjures the slacker-raps of the ’90s
I sometimes fear that Basehead’s Play With Toys is lost to time. Originally released in 1992, the record got a lot of acclaim and little else: an immaculately low-key live-instrument take on hip-hop, with songs that seemed to have ambled into existence. On the microphone, Michael Ivey split the difference between singing and rapping, not really paying attention to which he was doing, but the effect was more Nick Drake than, like, Drake. But the best thing about Play With Toys was its equally low-key conceptual bent, which seemed largely based on getting drunk and thinking about shit and occasionally hanging out.…