Chickenwire by LUKAH

Lukah raps his ass off over minimal soul wrenching loops. Heavy southern spittage without the veil of bombast production. (PTP)

Lukah’s delivery is well-enunciated and confident, with quip after quip sliding off of his silver tongue over a half-hour of hook-less verses, as fluid and loose as backseat freestyles. “Bounce,” according to DJ Squeeky, is a necessary component of the Memphis rap sound, which by now has come to be acknowledged as the precursor to many of hip-hop’s hottest trends. Chickenwire contains no bounce. Some tracks betray their R&B samples in clipped slivers, but most are wordless, tangled loops. This tape is the sort of thing you can play all the way through while puffing a backwoods on a porch in the sweltering, humid heat, but the MC never fails to remind you: don’t let your guard down. (Tiny Mixtapes)

Chickenwire, Lukah’s 17-track LP, is an outlier within rap today. His hardnosed, outside-voice cadence plays well over hallucinogenic soul, provided in large part by Cities Aviv, a fellow Memphis outsider. Lukah’s hunger on wax is both evident and enticing. (Bodye)

Tracklist

1.	Black Powder (Produced by LUKAH)	2:32

2.	Shooter (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	2:13

3.	Sheermagix (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	1:55

4.	Scars (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	1:42

5.	Part 2 (Produced by LUKAH)	5:11

6.	Power Supply (Produced by LUKAH)	2:06

7.	Had A Choice featuring CITIES AVIV (Produced by SUNI KATZ)	2:07

8.	Fire Voice (Produced by LUKAH)	1:49

9.	Bridge featuring SUNI KATZ (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	1:50

10.	Ash (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	1:31

11.	Stimuli (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	3:04

12.	Trial (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	1:20

13.	Sap (Produced by SUNI KATZ)	2:56

14.	Dream Delay (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	1:54

15.	MSG (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	3:11

16.	Roundtable (Produced by CITIES AVIV)	1:49

17.	Part 1 featuring LIL KEET (Produced by LUKAH)	5:26

Credits

released April 20, 2019

Recorded in Memphis, TN
Produced by Cities Aviv

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