Misc. Day – Lords Of Wax

It’s been a long time coming since the Alabaman native Pink Siifu and the Richmond destroyer, Fly Anakin could collaborate once again on their 2021 production, $mokebreak.

The congruent effort from both parties is immediate to spark a spliff and create a cloud of being absent from reality. While the heads are in the sky, both Pink Siifu and Fly Anakin create moments of standing away from the register at their fantasy jobs of record stores and clerks, to being stars of a center stage of the sound.

Opening with “Oatmeal” as the first musical track, Fly Anakin begins orchestrating over this soulful bliss of an instrumental. The verse takes time to develop but uses the momentum not as dips into the ride, but more as a wave of sound to follow.

When the chorus that features both spitters hits, the momentum is cut like a loose child, becoming lost within itself and becoming immersed in smoke. While hard to find, the lucid ability is broken by the feature from Chuck Strangers who describes, “Maintaining balance, if niggas want static give ‘em channel four. I’m demanding more.” The Brooklyn rhymer taps into this vein that quickly forms a solid grip around the audience, giving little to no room to breathe and step away.

As $mokebreak continues on, tracks like “Good Word,” are more upbeat and give a better sense of orchestrating style and proactive power into forming a diverse stance. It is a fairly layered and intricate production where Pink Siifu is hidden behind these guises of glasses and a fog-filled room.

Much like Anakin, the verse comes to be “bets from the future” where the chips become stacked on the audience with enough power to become buried under the production. Much like the track “Blame” which is a personal standout for the instrumental. $mokebreak is a shortened project of only 10 tracks over 31 minutes, but “Blame” seems to last an eternity. The drained vocals are as if vinyl could be personified as a siren.

Leading both Fly Anakin and Pink Siifu far from the lighthouse, the vocals in the background are a gem in this diamond farm. Over the three minutes, both Fly Anakin and Pink Siifu are illustrative enough to hold the attention, without falling victim to the harsh waves that flood underneath.

A bleeding lord still can’t seem to die in $mokebreak’s sense. Whether combining to be a duo or standing solo, both Fly Anakin and Pink Siifu are treasures where sound conquers.

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