6/30/2023 0 Comments Krayzie bone albums 2012![]() ![]() ![]() Over the near-bossa-nova lilt of “Simpler Time,” a beautiful song featuring the Atlanta singer-songwriter Mereba, he raps, “White picket fence and a wreath on the door/We from the basement concrete on the floor.” Like anyone traumatized by scarcity, Saba can’t quite stop retracing his fraught path to abundance, scanning for land mines. Every new trapping, his lyrics suggest, might just be a trap: “New crib by the seaside/On a one-way street though” (“One Way or Every Nigga With a Budget”). On Few Good Things, Saba remains haunted, not by grief, but by his own provisional success and the unanswered questions it keeps raising.Īcross the album, Saba endeavors to enjoy his spoils-new houses, nice clothes, days spent doing nothing but “playing Madden”-while trying not to glance back where he came from. You could feel his roving mind searching for meaning the way a tongue probes a sore spot inside your mouth. “Jesus got killed for his sins/Walter got killed for a coat,” he rapped on 2018’s CARE FOR ME, an album-length eulogy for his dead cousin. He’s attuned to the moments where a smile freezes, where two thoughts collide painfully and ripple across life’s surface. Like Lupe Fiasco, one of his heroes, Saba’s muse is ambivalence.
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