7 tracks in, and “Survival” finds Kweku Smoke right back in the land where this whole run started.
Back to something more like “Life Of A Hustler” here, the drums tighten back up, and the bassline is hard again after all the lighter ground in between. The grind is certainly still there, underlying all the other stuff this run touched.
His delivery sharpens too, less laid-back than “Okwantunii,” more frantic again as if the stakes just came back into focus. Nothing got fixed on this one, even after healing and thankfulness and lightness had their say.
Basically full circle now. Hustle led to pain, pain to correction, correction to refusal, and eventually to praise and ease, but survival is still the thing behind all of it.
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