(Equal Eyes Records, digital download) The pairing of Drive and ILLu was perhaps inevitable. Drive is a talented young rapper representing Lamoille County, and ILLu is a founding member of Burlington's foremost hip-hop label, Equal Eyes Records. Both are busy collaborators with an affinity for '90s underground rap, so the artists are a superb fit. But the problem with their new project, Late to the Party, is simple: This shit is too damn short. That's both a compliment and an indictment ... but mostly a compliment. Every cut of the new release is a catchy slice of up-tempo rap, so as a teaser it definitely works. Yet even as a teaser, at just three tracks it's a pretty skimpy preview — about half an EP.