There’s cause to be skeptical of the calculated chaos that has critics fawning over skaiwater. Add a weeping pattern right here, throw in a burnt 808 sample there, make a brash new rap sound palatable to poptimists… aren’t we slightly uninterested in this after Travis Scott? However then I activate a track fairly actually referred to as “pop” and all of it melts away. Perhaps as a result of skaiwater’s frag-rap pyrotechnics will not be a lot the purpose as they’re the scaffolding for what’s turning into a dagger of a pen.
“pop,” initially launched on skaiwater’s SoundCloud burner account just a few months in the past, makes the most effective case for skaiwater’s mad science since final yr’s staggering single “rain.” Like that track, “pop” seems like a flower rising from the rubble of an OsamaSon tape. However on a writing degree, “pop” is a strain cooker inside which a relationship is imploding. In two verses sandwiched by an enormous, “Certain 2”-ass hook, skaiwater raps in wispy, forlorn swooshes, like a baby-voice Carti hurriedly narrating partitions of textual content about doing all the things to make this shit work with their associate. Over a twangy loop laden with choral notes that Ye may’ve used twenty years in the past to do stressed-out, blue-collar raps, skaiwater gasps, “I’ve been working extra time for you, bae.” They make relationship blues really feel like your coronary heart’s falling out of your chest and 20 tales down.
