AKAI SOLO: “Paint Smear”

Art hop out of New York City. Our highlighted track “Paint Smear” (prod. Theravada) puts AKAI SOLO on the kind of platform that serves him best: an uncluttered landscape, consisting of not much more than a single sample on repeat, over which the rapper can riff without distraction. Shades of Quelle Chris, shades of Zazu Noir. He’s got a storyteller’s instinct, taste for realism, and a knack for combining artful turns with plain language to produce parades of everyday epiphanies. Off DREAMDROPDRAGON.

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