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Pink Siifu’s GUMBO! Is Good for the Soul
Pink Siifu’s latest release, GUMBO!, is another sprawling Afrocentric vision from one of the boldest voices in contemporary rap. Following up on 2020’s NEGRO, a genre-bending exploration of Black rage in the face of racist oppression, the album’s songs are as rich and varied as its titular stew. Siifu’s boundless style makes for an unpredictable but rewarding ride across the album’s 18 tracks, as he explores the diverse sounds of his influences and breaks new ground with a unique class of co-stars. Siifu, born Livingston Matthews and raised between Alabama and Cincinnati, has already notched a conspicuous list of collaborations in his burgeoning career, from legendary producer the Alchemist to Australian electronic group the Avalanches. These collabs reflect the ravenous appetite which inf...
Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin Showcase a Cipher of Rising Talent on $mokebreak EP
$mokebreak EP, the second project of hip-hop duo Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin, trades the rich worldbuilding of their first album for a fast-paced exhibition of their underground styles. On their debut, FlySiifu’s, the entrancing back-and-forth of emcee Fly Anakin’s earnest flows and rapper-singer Pink Siifu’s slick-talk was fictionalized as the efforts of blunted employees in the back of a Next Friday-esque record store. Where the album built this concept across its many skits, $mokebreak EP holds it as a loose premise; the duo are work-shirt-clad among crates and shelves on the EP’s cover, but mentions of the record store are fewer and less distinct than the mock voicemails of “Black Bitches Matter Hoe” and “[email protected]” Where the album’s features were marked by and divided amo...
