Mick Jenkins just signed to Cinematic Music Group, the home of Big K.R.I.T. and Joey Bada$$. What this likely means for the Chicago rapper of immense talent and only 8,000 twitter followers is a giant boost. Mick’s haunting, poetic Trees & Truths impressed us immensely last April, and after hearing his work on Hurt Everybody, his verse on Alex Wiley‘s “Forever,” and “Own Man,” and his own singles we’re seriously excited for his upcoming The Water[s]. Mick is a special artist; he’s a truly disciplined, meditative and exciting lyricist and vocalist and he has the gusto to make his wisdoms stick in your head.
Check out “Lazarus,” Mick’s latest, produced by Chuck Strangers of Pro Era, below. The track features some of Mick’s signature subtle punchlines, mixed with some astounding sound play (“Sparked epiphany he spitting piffany swiftly /
The aftermath is fifty-fifty, how you dealing with me?”) and he pries unrelentingly into hip-hop’s racial politics: “Black guy in the room full of people screaming ‘nigga’ with me / Now am I wrong if it ain’t sitting with me? / And shit I wrote, hate it, they quote it, shit is feeling iffy.”
We can’t wait to see where Mick Jenkins winds up; cheers to a relative underdog getting a shot and some recognition.
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