Al-J returns to our pages with another world premiere off the project Blak to the Future. Coming on the heels of late October’s reader-acclaimed Above & Beyond,The Past Meets the Present is a modern-day street banger with a throwback feel. Teddy Roxpin reprises his role behind the boards from the aforementioned cut, layering sampled brass hits over a boom-bap rhythm as the Blak Madeen member and Queensbridge vet Tragedy Khadafi chronicle their efforts