Mike - Black Soap (Vinyl)

Mike - Black Soap (Vinyl)

Black Soap features production and instrumentation from Standing On The Corner throughout and follows MIKE's EP By The Water, and last summer's mixtape-album May God Bless Your Hustle. Black Soap explores themes around the anxiety and moments of triumph that accompany growing up. 

Born in New Jersey, MIKE moved to London with his mother before settling in The Bronx for the remainder of his later teenage years. Both regions have had an audible influence on the young rapper's music - in England, he was immersed in grime and the music of King Krule, and in the United States, he was turned on to Earl Sweatshirt and MF DOOM. The releases turned heads outside of MIKE’s immediate community in the city, earning praise from The Fader, the New Yorker, and being selected as Bets New Music by Pitchfork. MIKE raps over characteristically lo-fi, and soulfully hazy, self produced beats. Themes about the depression and anxiety that accompany being young and African American abound throughout his music, but a muted sense of hopefulness and certainty that he is moving towards ultimate triumph is the motor quietly propelling things forward. In New York, he discovered several artists with a similar ear and style, and formed his collective [sLUms]. 

Track Listing:

1. Ipari
2. Like Mask Feat. Adé Sayyed
3. Ministry
4. Of Home Feat. Cheikhuana Bamba Fall
5. Time Ain't Enough
6. God Save The Queen
7. Comfort Ajoke