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Black Lives Anti Matter vol​.​1

by ?/K Thyself ?/K

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Review by John Vettese

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It’s hard to miss the album title on this one — Black Lives Anti Matter vol. 1. It’s a provocative phrase that on the one hand spins the handle of the racial justice movement to reflect the attitudes that the movement is up against. On the other hand, there’s an element of spirituality and cosmology in the invocation of matter vs. anti-matter, and also the explosive, disruptive relationship between the two. Against that landscape, Philly poet / rapper / producer ?/K Thyself ?/K (guesses on pronunciation, anyone? I’m thinking Know Thyself, but I’m totally spitballing) delivers abstract rhymes detailing oppression and struggle, ills of the world, summing up the tension in the hook on “OG Status”: “Everybody bendin’ hoping that they don’t break.” Musically, it’s in the vein of Saul Williams’ post-industrial tapestries of rhyme mixed with a bit of Death Grips and Yeezus for good measure.

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released February 10, 2017

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I am... nothing and everything at the same time, in the same space... everywhere but no place... ?/K

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