The five songs that make up NorthSideBenji’s Prophecy, the Brampton MC’s first release since 2021’s The Extravagant Collection, sound like freestyles in the best possible way. Over moody and melancholic production, Benji empties his brain, his words sometimes slurred, his voice occasionally cracking. No song is about any single thing, as Benji allows free-associative bars to affirm—as the best between-album mixtapes and EPs do—that he’s still very much growing as an MC.