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Texas producer Gensu Dean was home cooking one day when he decided to spin some jazz records. That’s when he heard a rock riff so aggressive that he wanted to create something similar. “I ran back to my studio where I had the door open in order to hear the music,” Dean recalls. “It was so hard and yet emotional. I stopped cooking, turned on the SP and got to work.” The result is “Chuck Berry,” a grungy single from Dean’s collaborative Abrasions LP with California rapper Planet Asia. “When I sent [the song] to him, he was instantly on it,” Dean says of working with Asia. “He then had the mighty Shawn Pen spit some fire to make it complete.”

Abrasions is out Feb. 26 on Mello Music Group. Stream “Chuck Berry” below: