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Richmond, VA’s $ilkMoney shares his latest record WHO WATERS THE WILTING GIVING TREE ONCE THE LEAVES DRY UP AND FRUITS NO LONGER BEAR?

Speaking about the album’s thematic inspiration, $ilk says, “Whether you give your all to your children or your passion or your dreams or to a relationship or whatever it is, we just gotta realize that a lot of what we give ourselves to don't really owe us anything to begin with.”

“You can’t passively listen to $ilkmoney. His songs rip through speakers like alien chestbursters, announcing his arrival with blasts of noise or pavement-cracking bass. Then there’s the voice. $ilk raps with a growling sneer, stuffing syllables into every available space. He issues screeds about the cycles of history and Black radical thought in a commanding boom, raspy from a never-ending chain of baseball-bat-sized spliffs. Imagine Xzibit kicking down a door, pupils dilated from a hero’s dose of mushrooms, rapping about subliminal messaging in soda commercials, and you’ve got a decent grasp on the giddy intensity of a $ilkmoney album.”

Pitchfork 8/10. Read the full review HERE.

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