So talk a little bit more about working with him specifically and how it came together. There's definitely a cohesiveness that comes with working with one producer. There are psychedelic moments, there are soulful moments. The style of the production on the album, it doesn't stick to one tone necessarily. Talk a little bit more about coming into Navy Blue's world. Also, just being, working with Sage and meeting up with him, that whole process just gave it the structure that I think it needed and that some of my previous projects don't have, I feel like. And in terms of writing, I wrote most of it in a month. You know what I mean? So I think the structure and the cohesiveness, a lot of it comes from just the fact that one, we did it in a short amount of time so we were just really focused on it. And then from that you're like, "What do we need now? Kind of thing. I feel like in the beginning of an album process, you're more making music.
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You know what I mean? So then as a writer, I can kind of just be a little bit more free in terms of what I want to write about and then when those chances come to like, "Oh, this can work towards this theme and work towards that theme, and then it builds upon each other." But then once you have that, it's like gives it a nice cohesiveness already. So that alone gave the structure it needed in terms of, well, one, the production is all coming from one person so it's like living in the same world. The structure itself, I would say, kind of came together as we made it, but it's more the fact that we did it with Navy Blue and that was the plan from the jump. Is that fair to say, or did it come to you as you were working on it?
Sounds like you had a certain structure in mind for this particular project before you went in it. It's like the work put in and the time and effort to really hone it down and cut off all the fat and all that. She's in her bag right now." You know what I mean? It's just kind of like this feeling in this moment, but at the same time, don't get it twisted. It's why I feel like in hip hop, it'll be like, whoa! You'll hear an album and you'll be like this, "Oh, he's on right now. But what is that level you want to get where it's really fully refined? With hiphop, I think, and rap, it can be such a free thing, an open thing where you have that skillset, you just go with it and do it.īut to take that time and really refine it, but then kind of in an organic way at the same time, it's something you can't really. It's going to be like, all right, this is good. You know what I'm saying? And what I mean bad, I mean, maybe you think it's bad, but I'm saying, it's not going to be a whack flow. But it's like, is it the most refined version of what. I feel like I'm a great writer, I'm a great rapper, so I'm not going to put out something that's bad. I mean, it's a little bit more honed in in terms of like. Each different side of yourself as a rapper, you sound very invested in, and that you have a certain degree of clarity in who you are and the different facets that you excel at that perhaps isn't present on previous projects. The FADER: Listening to this album front to back, it feels like you're making an effort to reintroduce yourself.
A few days before the album's release the FADER's Jordan Darville spoke with Wiki about songwriting, gentrification, and coming into his own as an artist. With Navy Blue's dusty sampled loops as companions, Wiki has all the hallmarks of a rapper who's determined to reintroduce himself. The latest tracks find Wiki comfortably balancing his reflective streak with braggadocio, building compelling music around his passions and fears. On October one, he will share Half God a new album produced entirely by Navy Blue, a fast rising young artist from Los Angeles. After dropping No Mountains in Manhattan in 2017 and leaving XL Recordings, Wiki formed his own label, Wikset Enterprise for 2019's LP Oofie.Ģ021 has already seen the release of Telephone Booth, an energetic and underrated LP with producer NAH that pushes the boundaries of Wiki's sound. Then in 2016, the group disbanded and Wiki was left to continue finding his voice solo. They signed to XL Recordings, taught the world and even covered the FADER all on the strength of their sound, that once experimental and is grimy and timeless as a park bench covered in pigeon shit. The track took off online and soon Wiki and his group Ratking formed with fellow vocalist Hak and produced with Sporting Life with the toast of NYC hip-hop. He was 18 years old and sounded like a Dick Tracy villain weaned on classic underground rap from his hometown of New York city. In 2012, Patrick Morales, the rapper known as Wiki shared his first song, Wiki Speaks.
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