From the Armand Hammer x Alchemist GQ Interview:

Elucid: Then something like “Black Sunlight”: we had that Terror Management release show, and MIKE played. I saw MIKE on stage and was like, ‘MIKE is a star.’ The way he moves, his pocket when he rhymes… and he smiled a lot. He smiled a lot. I remembered that. Like, ‘Damn, he has the best smile out here!’ That’s originally how “Black Sunlight” came to be. Elucid raps the opening bar of his verse: an impassioned “Smile, niggas” I was talking about MIKE. That was the inspiration.

KeiyaA vinyl today!!! Been spending a lot lately

AKAI changed his twitter name to True Sky Inbound

short film rly grew on me tbh director seems to be sort of a legend too
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Johnson_Artur
this was def such a tight way to make a formal "comeback" (/late arrival?)

KeiyaA vinyl pre order for anyone interested:

roughtrade.com/gb/keiyaa/forever-ya-girl

Wonder if/how he’d fit on an AH record.

frequent MIKE co-producer and Jadasea collaborator Redlee dropped a beattape, it's a pretty tight listen edit: intro is on some Arca s*** fr

redlee.bandcamp.com/album/auto

must.resist.impulse.buy.

ragofoot.bandcamp.com/album/we-need-to-talk

another very fire early project wow. I can see how that early run was probably kinda influential on MIKE and others. Just bought dude discography on bandcamp for 10 pounds that's going to be money well spent

@marcusg Lord Byron album in two days with a Kryptonyte reunion? teaser on his twitter sounds nasty

also if I'm understanding right Siifu's dad was just released from jail

also this Siifu sculpture is hard af

Gimme dat

Good for him

And god damn that sculpture is nuts... album cover material

Speaking of which I’m so excited for NEGRO Deluxe

this nigga's sampling is crazy.

turned that into this

again and again I find myself using Earl's words ... "keiyaA beats go extremely crazy"

That FWU bounce is literal insanity

Nah for real...

I feel like I only recently really connected with the album. Had to play it all the way through and just vibe to it. And it's her debut right? If so god damn

Yeah it's insane, all self-produced, only like two tracks got MIKE co-production, BSTFRND engineered, that's about it with features. CWTTY... and FYG literally two of the best debuts in the last two years tbh

And honestly I still need her and MIKE to do a collab tape badly, she stole the show on his own producer tape with rootin4

Crazy. She's so talented.

I also feel like they'd make an incredible album together. If they're both producing/writing/singing

sex-positive feminist raps we outchea

not completely related but since you're saying MIKE and singing, this s*** is fr one of my fav tracks of the year so far the range man...

i just want you to want me sometimes

keiyaa.xyz Caved and got the vinyl lol