Beware Of The Monkey (LP)
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Beware Of The Monkey (LP)
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Beware of the Monkey is the eighth album by New York based MC / Producer MIKE, released via his own 10k label. The album was entirely self-produced under MIKE's dj blackpower alias, and has guest features from Sister Nancy, Klein, Jadasea & King Carter.
Beware of the Monkey draws its title from a horoscope MIKE read in a Chinese restaurant about the year he was born (year of the tiger), which warned him of this future. The message MIKE conveys on the album is confident and resolute, acknowledging the reputation he's built as a trailblazing force in today's rap landscape after passing the barrier from child prodigy to realised artist. MIKE has previously collaborated with the likes of Earl Sweatshirt, The Alchemist, Wiki, Sideshow, Black Noi$e, and Niontay.
MIKE's music celebrates the relief of finding the right words. When his inner monologue tumbles out into the world, he basks in the weight of the disclosure. His love of the spoken word is almost devotional; in his heady songs, voicing a thought or emotion is akin to channeling the divine. On Beware of the Monkey, his self-produced 10th album, such revelations come frequently and forcefully. The record is self-assured and polyvalent, a current of shifting emotional states that MIKE's exquisite word and production choices shape into rich affirmations.
8.1 / 10 Pitchfork
Tracks:
A1. Nuthin I can do is Wrng
A2. As 4 Me
A3. Eczema
A4. Light (if u can't see) w/ Jadasea
A5. No Curse Lifted (rivers of love)
A6. What do I do?
A7. Ipari Park w/ Klein
B1. Swoosh 23
B2. Tapestry
B3. Stop Worry! w/ Sister Nancy
B4. WEARY LOVE
B5. Concrète w/ King Carter
B6. Closing Credits (Come-up/#Fr)
