Pink Siifu BLACK’!ANTIQUE
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Pink Siifu, AKA Livingston Lemorie Matthews, lists his influences as George Clinton, Bad Brains, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pixies, Radiohead, and Death Grips. That eclectic group of musical influences combines to create a compelling, schizophrenic experimental Hip-Hop album that is not background music and can require your attention to appreciate it. If you give BLACK’!ANTIQUE a real listen, it will reward you with unexpected references, great beats, some solid drum-line breaks, and a punk aesthetic that is missing from most modern hip-hop.
The tracks do not sound polished, but the gritty and grimey beats are a purposeful counterbalance to his crisp bars. There is an urgency to Pink Siifu’s delivery that conjures images of a basement punk show. This album does not try to be a smooth edged beautiful piece of music. Pink Siifu has created a album with rough edges, hard beats, honest bars, and no compromises. If you take the time to LISTEN, the rhyme and lines will make you think and often times will make you smile. More than once I have thought “Shit, did he just say…” Unfortunately, as I write this, the lyrics are not published on Genius, but hopefully you are able to listen through the album and read through the lyrics. The album is, perhaps, a bit over-long at over 75 minutes. Pink chose to deliver everything all at once, rather than releasing a 45 minute album followed by a deluxe version
RIYL: JPEGMAFIA; Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Yeezus, The Life of Pablo; Tyler the Creator’s weirder Shit
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