This song was released on June 23rd this year. I was first exposed to Zim as an artist when he was featured on Blank Thought’s my life flashed before me album. I liked his performance on that project a lot, so that made me curious about this track. The contributions from Jesse the Tree and Blank Thought just made this single even more enticing to me. I was expecting this song to be either very good or just kinda mediocre. Thankfully I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.

The first aspect of this song that really stood out to me was just the production from Blank Thought. My first thought was that it actually sounds like a sea of clouds that one would see in the sky on a summer day. It sounds like the cover art. Once the beat finally drops, the song goes in a much more melodic direction than I was anticipating, and I’m still not sure how I feel about that. I’m just not really crazy about the bassline underneath everything here. I’m kind of ambivalent towards the guitar too. Something about it just sounds ever so slightly discordant to me. That’s not always necessarily a bad thing though. Sometimes it can give a song a really nice, off-kilter flair. I’m just not convinced that it totally works here. I’d definitely still say that I like the production overall. Is it the kind of beat that I would listen to casually as an instrumental if it had no vocals over it? Probably not; however, there are vocals over it, so the song we get as a result is quite enjoyable. With all that said, I will admit that the more I listen to the beat, the more I enjoy it. It just takes some getting used to I guess. Anyway, the hook here is pretty solid, but it’s really the actual verses that make this song so entertaining to me. The opening performance from Zim is really nice. His flow is very smooth, and he rhymed very well.

Isolate myself and work my life away on weekends
Deteriorating slowly as I'm rotting, off the deep end
They say grace in the presence of extinction
But never find the place to cope with homies slowly sinkin'
Invite you out for drinkin' just to drown all of your demons
And the brains get swollen from the chronic overthinkin'

His bouncy flow just gets more and more aggressive as the verse progresses. His cadence actually reminds me a lot of Lync Lone here. I really fuck with the verse overall. The second verse from Jesse didn’t disappoint at all either. I really love his flow and poetic lyricism here.

Seasons change, things rearrange
Feels like yesterday we were playin' Streets of Rage
Sonic Youth, keep my memories in secret safes
What remains is the way we relate
Wading in the velvet sea, chemical dependency
A temporary sense of empathy for those who let me bleed
My father waters seeds, that's his therapy
Bury my heart in this sixteen to set it free

Honestly that verse really elevates this song for me. I was already enjoying it, but then it got pushed to the next level. I think it’s a really dope track. The production grew on me heavily, and both of the verses were very good. Give this track a listen and let me know what you think in the comments below. I fuck with it personally.