Two of Chicago’s finest follow up last year’s impeccably grimy Operation Hennessy tape with this feet-up, head-nodding track dedicated to Black women. SLLIME slices a perfect loop from a soul record dusty enough for Herb Kent, the warbled vocals hanging in the air like blunt smoke. Qari flashes back to childhood: knucklehead cousins ducking prison, his dad’s beeper chirping as he bags up work in the kitchen, women in the background “criticized, victimized, villainized.” He resolves to be a better role model for his own daughter, and if that means he has to smack racists to make America Blacker, so be it. SLLIME’s more focused on the present: surfing Black Planet while cleaning his nine, looking for someone to share weed and Sharks lemon pepper wings with.
greenSLLIME dropped the self-produced-while-smashed iboga tape this year on top of excellent loosies like “Sell Coke To White Folks, Pt. 2,” while Qari’s been on an impressive run of features for Mick Jenkins, Sen Morimoto, theMIND, and more. Strong as they are on their own, the two artists are best together, like Madlib and DOOM, like weed and chicken.
Originally published on Caleb Catlin’s Medium.