(Photo by Ryan Lewis via Sol's Myspace Page)

Fret not, Pac Nor’westerners, for the sun hasn’t quite made its inevitable departure from our fair city yet. The Mariano Rivera of rhyme, Sol, will be keeping the heat on this fall with his Dear Friends EP, scheduled to drop for FREE download on 10.14.09. Follow Sol’s goings-on via Twitter here. And his new homepage here.

In the meantime, below is the album art with track listing for Dear Friends and the first leak, “Cash Rules!” available for free download here. (The SPARSE BEAT + TENSE STRING ARRANGEMENT = 206-FIRE of the highest order!)

UPDATE (10.12.09, 7:57 pm): Download the second leak, “No Sleep” (featuring Grynch), here at 2dopeboyz.