FEVER – Black Milk
This article was originally posted on the S&R Blog.
Lately, I’ve found myself listening to instrumental lo-fi hip-hop loops on YouTube. The grooving rhythm and soft-toned melodies grab me like a fishhook and pull me through to the end of the day, especially when work begins to pile up and feel insurmountable. It’s no surprise to me, then, that Black Milk’s latest output tapped directly into that center of my brain, but with meaningful bars and inventive rhyme schemes to boot. It doesn’t start out in lo-fi heaven – the opening track feels more out of the school of loud, avant-garde rap – but each track begins to morph, one into the other, until the flow settles in. As political as any rap has been this side of King Kendrick, as personal as everything from Milk’s Detroit predecessor Eminem, the sum of all parts makes a whole worth drinking. In this case, I’m more than ok playing the fish.
Check out FEVER by Black Milk on Spotify or Apple Music.
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