"Over a pared-back post-punk beat, Simz details her life's genius plan, namely being free as I can. The first half is spent detailing the roadblocks she's faced in her quest, marching through them like a Marvel hero. Then, as if throwing her arm round a young apprentice's shoulder as she walks, she lays out her six-point plan for greatness with koans of wisdom such as: Never eat with the hyenas / Cause they will look at you as bones."
"The opening track from Bad Bunny's Debi Tirar Mas Fotos is named after New York, but contains a whole world. It encompasses the displacement, identity and resistance of the Puerto Rican people; the sample of El Gran Colombo's 1975 salsa hit Un Verano en Nueva York celebrates the cultural innovations of diverse Latin communities mingling in mid-20th-century NYC; there's puckish Dominican dembow; the longing for home and its heat of PR poet Virgilio Davila's early 1900s work Nostalgia."
Little Simz performs over a pared-back post-punk beat and declares a life's plan centered on being free. She chronicles roadblocks and imparts a six-point plan for greatness with koans such as 'Never eat with the hyenas / Cause they will look at you as bones.' Bad Bunny's 'Nuevayol' channels New York as a site of Puerto Rican displacement, identity and resistance, sampling El Gran Colombo's salsa and invoking Dominican dembow alongside PR poet Virgilio Davila. The song acts as a rallying cry for domestic and diasporic audiences and an invitation to engage with cultural memory. Wednesday's 'Elderberry Wine' is a twangy tear-catcher exposing the distance between two people.
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