The title The Modest Tomorrow should tip listeners off to the fact that Traffik isn’t the type of rapper to boast of all his material acquisitions.

The MC born Jacob Saltzberg is not in the game to get rich or die tryin’. “Ultimately all I want to do in life is write,” Traffik announces on “Oakwood Park”. And on “Never Forget (Where U Came From)”, he insists “The realest thing I live for, the only thing that I wish/Is to understand and not forget what love really is.” A tone of gratitude dominates, and that’s not entirely surprising given that Saltzberg made The Modest Tomorrow after having surgery to remove nodules from his vocal cords, leaving him wondering if he’d ever rap again. He did, obviously, and he’s not the only one who can be thankful for that.