Following the release of their Return to the Golden Era album, Awon & Phoniks are on to the next one as they prep the Matte Black mixtape. Here, Awon paints a picture of the sobering thought that his window in hip-hop might be closing due to age. He uses balding as a metaphor to explain the struggle and the feeling of lost youth over a somber sample of 21st Century’s “Remember the Rain.” Check it out below. Matte Black arrives this Fall.

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