I caught the street-rat New York rapper Wiki opening for Spirit Of The Beehive at a Pitchfork Music Pageant aftershow this summer time. It was an ideal dwell hip-hop expertise, the type the place a rapper really spits his materials and not using a backing observe and is magnetic sufficient to carry your consideration with out a lot stagecraft to talk of. His recorded output continues to be impressive too, and he’s about so as to add to it.
Wiki has teamed with the Y2K-revivalist New Jersey producer Subjxct 5 for a full-length venture referred to as Chilly Cuts, designed as a throwback to the mixtape period. Our first preview of the venture is a six-minute epic referred to as “My Life,” which finds Wiki spinning his yarn in dirty, unflashy bars that mesh nicely with Subjxct 5’s noisy-city-street boom-bap manufacturing. Pay attention under.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Jersey Sub”
02 “My Life”
03 “3 Practice To Mecca”
04 “Mista”
05 “Come Dwelling” (Feat. Afrikillz)
06 “Butta Leather-based”
07 “The Fonz”
08 “Evergreen” (Feat. Papo2oo4)
09 “Bossed Up Sense”
10 “Telephone Calls” (Feat. Large Ouee)
11 “Wikispeaks 2K22”
12 “Silent Assembly” (Feat. DJ Lucas)
13 “Till We On” (Feat. Reed & Hunnaloe)
14 “Ricky” (feat. YL)
15 “Bones” (Feat. Papo2oo4)
16 “One Extra Probability (feat. Navy Blue)
17 “Peace 2 MC Shan” (Feat. Slicky)
18 “At all times Will”
Chilly Cuts is out 10/21 through Wikset Enterprise.
