In 2010, the estate of the late rapper Big L , who died in 1999, released the album Return of the Devil’s Son posthumously. Donald Phinazee, the rapper’s brother, oversaw the project, stitching the Harlem MC’s demo tracks, unreleased material and freestyles to new production. But the music wasn’t officially licensed, and in 2021 Mike “Heron” Herard, a veteran A&R who became head of the rapper’s estate in 2018, took the album down. Herard then got to work on “Harlem’s Finest: The Return of the