Dave East - Karma 3

I just feel like whatever you put out, it comes back, whether it's good or bad,” Dave East says of karma, the concept for his long-running mixtape series of the same name. “And my karma was getting in the rap game. Like I put in a lot of work, a lot of consistency. Year after year, working in the hood, and the karma of that was me being able to provide for my family, and move out those projects, and take my talents all over the world.” With the third edition of the Karma  series, which follows 2019’s  Survival  album, East found himself compelled to make an adjustment to how this collection of songs is received. “I was going to let DJ Holiday host it again,” he says. “He hosted the first two. But once a lot of them records started coming back, I was like, 'Man, this shit sound like an album. But I'm going to keep the name because I know I got a lot of followers that was big fans of the  Karma  series.' Like at a lot of my shows, they know them records word for word.”  Karma 3  includes plenty more words from East, and then also some from guesting MCs like Benny the Butcher, Young Dolph, and A Boogie wit da Hoodie, to name a few.