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The 10K rapper anchors his myth-making with 4KHD detail on his first album in two years.
Sideshow opens “YARDBIRD” with a discussion of heroin and jazz. “Do you think it made guys more creative?” one man asks; “The concentration of a heroin addict is very strong,” the conclusion comes down. It’s a bleak semi-rationale for the hedonistic impulses shot through TIGRAY FUNK, the Tigrayan artist’s first album in two years.
Of the myriad psychoactives glamorized in hiphop, dogfood remains fringe, even for self-professed distributors (consider Skrilla’s dogbone face tat). Sideshow’s hypothetical spoon session places his art in a lineage with greats like Charlie Parker, tracing a seam of addiction from the sealed pints of today to the poppy fields of yore. All around, billowing synths thrum and shimmer, coating every surface in cozy fuzz.
Within the wider allegorical frame of TIGRAY FUNK, libidinal outbursts (drugs, sex, violence) frequently anchor Sideshow’s myth-making with real stakes and grimy detail. “YARDBIRD” offers a microcosm of the 10K rapper’s self-image. “All I need is a digi scale, n***a I can’t fail,” he crows. “Let em start faking, n***a we gon take it there.” From his vantage point, all the wannabe friends and would-be opps must look like ants.
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