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Riff: Yasiin Bey – “NO Colonial Fiction”

Nov 18, 2015

Never mind the pressure/End up, go stronger and better/And get fresher/Stay free in your endeavours/Tell the visa man whatever

from NO Colonial Fiction lyrics by Yasiin Bey

Like his live performances his rap’s have now descended into virtually nothing; morsels of words and fractions of ideas that do nothing other than inflate his own ego, a self-important song that is tacky at best. The beat is pretty with its lilting melodies, but against the backdrop of what he’s trying to say it comes off as off-color and confused, the icky result of feeling yourself too much.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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