"AKAI accomplishes this with knotty, idiosyncratic writing, packing his songs with lateral logic-leaps and indirect imagery that asks you to follow his mind backwards and sideways as the music presses forward. Killing you becomes "turning you to a Ghost-type " ; dust can't "settle" unless it "gets a chance to get comfortable." Often, he'll take a convoluted string of ideas and repeat it as a makeshift hook, treating it with the breeziness"
"It doesn't necessarily come naturally to record your deepest feelings for posterity, or to make yourself confront the things you really need to say. In his songs, Brooklyn rapper AKAI SOLO tackles this challenge head-on, chronicling intense storms of personal experience that he strains to apprehend through language. He's called his writing process "a game of how clever I can make my turmoil"; he makes his most humbling moments into fodder for thoughtful self-exploration he can share with others."
Brooklyn rapper AKAI SOLO turns private reflection into aural experiment on No Control, No Glory. He channels the difficulty of journaling into rapid, stream-of-consciousness verses that chronicle turbulent personal experiences and emotional upheaval. The songs abandon conventional hooks and structures in favor of lateral logic, indirect imagery and repeating convoluted idea-strings as makeshift refrains. Lines blend scene-setting with absurd detours and fake-outs, generating an improvisatory shock of reality. The production supports mood shifts while AKAI's knotty writing and dizzying flow map the rhythms of thought with raw honesty and adventurous, unconventional songcraft.
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