GENRE: Rap

LABEL: texasBronco

REVIEWED: 16th September, 2025

Southern California rapper-producer dolo2000 has been quietly shaping his own corner of cloud rap, and his latest release, Let’s Meet at Junes, feels like an intimate journal cracked open. The album drifts through hazy snapshots of life in Los Angeles—nights out, hookups that don’t stick, parties that feel more hollow than exciting. It’s a record less about big statements than about catching fleeting moods and fractured emotions.

Listening to it is a little like dropping into an indie comic or slice-of-life manga, where the focus is on atmosphere, relationships, and messy twenty-something indecision. His sing-song delivery, often coated in effects, makes the words blur like smoke trails. But when a line does cut through such as on at_the_club_its_so_meaningless, where he admits, “Kinda sad that I see you less”—it lands like a spotlight in the fog, almost cinematic in its detail.

The production, largely handled by dolo himself, leans into airy synths, glassy textures, and beats that nod both to 2000s video game soundtracks and to lo-fi SoundCloud pioneers. Tracks like secretlab bury his voice beneath layers of ad-libs, while kanji’s castle leans too far into muffled distortion, losing clarity. Still, even the weaker cuts are rescued by instrumental choices that capture the drifting, in-between feeling he’s after.

Where Let’s Meet at Junes shines brightest is in the smaller, almost throwaway moments video game shoutouts on gaspack, cartoonish pitch-shifts on guancho guancho man, or the bittersweet unraveling of a relationship on still the same. The latter, with its anxious bounce and emotional honesty, might be the most vivid chapter of all.

If dolo2000’s music sometimes feels meandering, that’s part of the point. Let’s Meet at Junes isn’t about resolutions it’s about the wandering haze of being young, restless, and figuring yourself out.