Keeping up with Curren$y’s music can be a full-time job, but the New Orleans native’s quality is so consistent that the effort is worth it; the reward is as nice as his sugary-sweet Southern drawl. Another difficult task is keeping up with his ever-expanding cast of collaborators, but the pot-loving poet makes this relatively easy by returning to old favorites as often as he works with new voices. On 2024’s The Encore, he reunites with Oakland-bred DJ.Fresh for their third project together, and their second of the calendar year. The Encore follows The Tonite Show The Sequel, which the duo created earlier in 2024, and The Tonite Show, from 2020. Curren$y doesn’t do anything spectacularly different on this project than on other albums with Fresh, though the nuances are in his show-stopping one-liners. On “Top of the Morning,” he spits over a sultry, horn-laced head-nodder, diving into two of his three favorite topics: women and cars (weed being the third): “The game change fast, you getting dressed too slow wit’ yo lame ass/Drivers in the other lane done blown past/Ain't no second or third place, there's only dead last.” Next, he describes the lady he’s courting in classic Spitta fashion: “The dress was see-through, on that lady like a champagne glass.”