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2022 Year End List - #5

HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING - Backxwash

Main Genres: Horrorcore, Industrial Rap

A decent sampling of: Conscious Rap, Industrial Metal, Hardcore Rap, Experimental Rap, Glitch Hop

WARNING: This album features violent imagery and discusses many heavy topics such as su***dal thoughts, sexual abuse, religious abuse, transphobia, and racism. Proceed at your own discretion.

Time for me to write about the greatest natural progression I’ve seen in an artist over the span of just one year.

Backxwash, whose real name is Ashanti Mutinta, is a Zambian-born Canadian rapper/producer, and a black transfeminine goth harbinger of spiritual rebellion.

Her dedication to her craft and her productivity are both apparent; in just four short years, she has given us four LPs of some of the most uncompromising and artistically authentic examples of industrial-rap-metal. She’s managed to convert me to a sound that I wouldn’t normally otherwise gravitate towards, largely thanks to her charisma as a rapper and her eclecticism as a producer.

One year ago on my previous year end list, I wrote a review largely praising Backxwash’s I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES for being one of the most challenging listens that I ended up really enjoying that year. It ended up landing at number 13 on my list as a very solid 8 out of 10. I also noted what I personally felt like were some pacing issues and redundancy.

Luckily, Backxwash only seems to improve with every release, and this record is no exception.

As a matter of fact, HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING is a titan of industrial horrorcore that delivers an unfiltered tempest of all that is violent and ugly about the institutions of power in our society, particularly the institution of religion. The cover art itself manages to communicate exactly what you should expect to hear and feel while listening to this ungodly record.

The more overtly political lyrics of her previous LP are somewhat dialed down for an album that is more just viscerally personal and holds nothing back, with a heavy focus on revisiting the past physical and spiritual violence of Ashanti’s childhood. Likewise, if I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES was an uncomfortable listen, then this one is potentially distressing. I will repeat verbatim what I said last time, because it applies even more this time around: This record is brutally honest and occasionally self-loathing, and some of the thoughts expressed here are downright ugly. But fuck if this isn’t raw and real as hell.

After a meditative intro that samples a pastor’s answering machine (“KUTALI”), the music properly starts with “VIBANDA”, a gargantuan wave of hardcore horrorcore that makes brilliant use of foreboding monastic chanting of Mozart’s “Lacrimosa”, creating the imagery of a cathedral set ablaze in flames, and a city flooded in an sea of blood. Mutinta pours her heart out about the abuse of the past in her verses, and then spits hellish dragon fire in the chorus as she ‘repents’. It is Backxwash’s most jaw-dropping and chilling performance to date.

“MUZUNGU” hums and drones with a quivering electrical pulse, like a dangerous high voltage fence wrapped with barbed wire. The lyrics address body dysmorphia through body horror imagery, and ponders revenge against a god that has forsaken the downtrodden.

Underground rapper CENSORED dialogue, who previously guest featured on 2021′s “TERROR PACKETS”, returns with an even bigger role on “ZIGOLO”, a nightmarish industrial hip hop soundscape that harasses and confuses. The track samples and distorts the haunting call of the Loon, an eccentric choice that pays off immensely as it serves to create the atmosphere of being stranded somewhere in the murky marshlands of a dark, boreal wilderness during the unholy witching hour.

“MULUNGU” is a completely unhinged experimental rap track that blasts, glitches, and recoils with a strange elastic production that feels like it’s going to give me a painful static shock at any given second. Backxwash comes out of the gate full beast mode with the lyrics “I put my body on display for the world to watch“ and goes on to deliver some of the hardest verses of this year. I’ve heard nothing quite like it, and it’s probably the most forward thinking hip hop track of the year.

“JUJU” is one of the more melodic offerings on the record, an emotionally-charged banger full of despair and self-doubt that bleeds misery. The chorus goes insanely hard with its anxious “what if’ thoughts and general lyrical imposter syndrome: “What if you can't, do what you said / What if you not, all that you thought / What if you slip / what if you fall / What if you just, can't save 'em all”.

The album closes on “MUKAZI”, a small beacon of hope piercing through the acid rain and asphyxiating fog that permeates the rest of this forsaken record. Backxwash swaps out her characteristic trickling industrial metal infused production for an odd, slightly off-kilter throwback to 2000s chipmunk soul. Think of it as form of musical after-care for taking in some of the most raw sonic agony and anguish.

There is still a track or two here that I feel is a bit filler-y. Despite that, this is a big step up from I LIE HERE... and successfully addresses the pacing problems of that record. Everything flows quite smoothly on this LP, largely thanks to the many intermissions appearing at the beginning and endings of most of the tracks, which sample sermons and the political musings of great activists like Angela Davis.

Generally speaking, this is just a much tighter and denser project from Backxwash that takes everything great about her previous records and heightens the intensity. Truly, HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING is the most beautifully destructive record I’ve heard this year.

I hope that this record is cathartic for you and whatever you might be going through, and I seriously hope that Backxwash is healing.

9/10

Highlights: “VIBANDA“, “MULUNGU”, “JUJU”, “ZIGOLO”, “MUKAZI”, "MUZUNGU”

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spaceshipsandpurpledrank · 2 months

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#talkin #tik tok #rap #hip hop #music #yedoye travis #vince staples #michael jackson #music industry

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renaimel · 3 months

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Y’all I just listened to hiss by Megan thee Stallion…. Omg ain’t no way. This is the best rap beef and real rap we’ve actually every had. Is Nicki on drugs or sum cause why is she spamming comments? Anyways gurl your pushing at 50 stfu your response was giving 1 foot 2 foot red foot blue foot. How you rhyme foot with foot? Your the queen of rap? LMAOOOO Megan Ate.

“These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law.”

She ate you, your husband, your brother, and your friend up. And all you came up with was a doctor suess rhyme? Baby you were tuned in. Mind you she only promoted the song three times and you and your fans did all the work for her song to blow up. I do really love you Nicki but you pushing it.

#rap #hip hiop #hip hop industry #lmaooo #beef #twitter #instagram #tiktok #hiss #megan thee stallion #Drake #nicki minaj

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#Hyperpop #Pop Rap #Trap #Industrial Hip Hop #Experimental Hip Hop #Bubblegum Bass #2010s #2020s #China #USA #poll #Spotify

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This is where Tumblr finally implodes, isn't it?

Listen to both songs before voting, and define "better" any way you wish!

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eurodynamic · 9 months

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PARAPPA THE RAPPER (1996) dev. NanaOn-Sha

#parappa the rapper #parappatherapperedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #*#the rap industry today would not be the same without Parappa’s influence

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dust--bunny · 4 months

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reblog for more reach! <3

#poll #music #music poll #pop #rock #folk #goth #rap #punk #electronic #edm #ambient music #experimental music #industrial

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Tracklist:

Vortex • Play Fair • Taxi • Devil's Face • Not My Day • Bullet • Lose Your Head • Ivory Tower • Undertaker • Athena

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ja3hwa · 2 months

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I JUST SAW GYEOMMIES INSTA POST AND EXCUSE ME BUT MR SONG FUCKING MINGI WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!!

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akonoadham · 9 months

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shirkers2018dirsanditan · 9 months

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actually you probably could make a list of rap with no misogyny but it would probably be obscure garbage. or songs by artists with misogynistic lyrics in other songs. also in that spotify list of the top 50 most streamed rap artists there are only THREE women: nicki minaj (top 10), cardi b (top 20), and megan thee stallion (number 46, two spots above the man that shot her and lied about it). why be in denial. especially when so many female vets of hip hop are either underacknowledged or resigned to the historical dustbin......................

#it should make you mad #not make you make up lies to defend the genre from its worst instincts #rap reflects the misogyny in our society and in the industry broadly #but the vulgarity that makes rap unique popular and culturally invigorating #is also what makes it so cruel to women

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