(Pockets)

You know one thing I love about this specific artist’s music is her diversity. I genuinely never know what to expect from one song or project to the next, and that is very rare these days. You review or listen to an artist enough, and you start to pick up on a formula or style or something to have you bracing for what’s to come next, but never her! It’s always a mystery, and that level of unpredictability will always be a positive factor in my eyes! Let’s get into it!

This is the brand-new single by MC Black Silq and Producer DOCENT, and together they drop this four-minute short story that dives into realms of pain, distrust, heartbreak, and sadness. 

If we start with the production, we see a more mellow and relaxed type beat compared to what I’ve heard her use in a while! I’m talking about that kind of beat I would have heard on her previous full-length that had me discovering her to begin with! This has a similar vibe and tone to that record, and it’s a breath of fresh air to hear her back on her storytelling, emotional lane!

This beat has those light hypnotic drums, delicate keys, and an overall atmosphere sound that almost has an echo effect! Very surreal and thrilling in execution!

When we discuss the lyricism, we hear (as mentioned in the above verse) her back on her heartfelt, deep-in-depth perspective type shit, which sounds like a tragic love story gone wrong! Based on the song title and the chorus of this track, I can only assume she found incriminating or cheating material using her instincts that she always mistook for voices in her head and then ended with his suicide? A definite disturbing tale from start to finish!

This makes me feel like I’m listening to a female version of Slick Rick but a more darker interpretation of a story. 

She definitely expresses herself as strongly as I’ve ever heard her. She’s aggressively tragic, with powerful emotions as if she’s recording right after going through this shit in real life! Similar to how that woman on that Kendrick song sounds! Where that argument is played out on the song.

And also, if you put this into real-life context (if what I think happened happens on the song), she finds her partner cheating only for him to end it after she’s so used to him playing that card to escape judgement? Can’t imagine what someone on the other end would feel like going through that, and this song projects that exact real-life level of stress and dread to the audience in cruel detail!

This is truly a story-based track on a different level! In four minutes, she’s able to do what most rappers can only aspire to be. Definitely a track worth checking out and hearing the magic!