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Drought Season

album by Taylor Gang Records

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ5308631 ↗
Source-derived summary

Drought Season is a collaboration album between American rappers Berner & The Jacka, the first album of their Drought Season series. The album features guest appearances from Michael Marshall, B-Legit and San Quinn, among other artists.

Drought Season peaked at #55 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and at #25 on the Rap Albums chart, making it Berner's first charting album and one of his most successful to date.

A music video has been filmed for "Purp" featuring B-Legit & Cozmo.

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“Drought Season” enters the record as album by Taylor Gang Records. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Drought, Season and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 80-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-04-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Drought, Season and album.
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“Drought Season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Drought, Season and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5308631. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Drought Season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.