K!MMORTAL - Breathe
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
K!MMORTAL - "Breathe," a 2020 self-released single.
Throughout the month of May, KEXP has been celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. We’re putting an extra spotlight this week on API artists with this week’s Song of the Day picks, continuing with K!MMORTAL’s “Breathe.”
"Breathe” was released for the current moment of uncertainty during the global pandemic but actually has its roots in much earlier. The Vancouver B.C. rapper wrote and recorded the song back in 2016 but recently released the track on Bandcamp, feeling it made sense for the these “highly fraught times.” K!MMORTAL dazzles with immaculate flow over glossy, dripping beats, culminating in a reminder to breathe and a reminder that we’ll be alright. Take a deep inhale, put on this song, and allow yourself the same moment of clarity K!MMORTAL exudes on this track. — Dusty Henry
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| 0:00.0 | I dived into this |
| 0:10.0 | knowing what it would feel like I shed my front |
| 0:17.0 | Despite my fear of highs I didn't know what to expect my My heart beats in my chest. A hundred BPM sometimes I forget to breathe. |
| 0:38.0 | dust free. I never really know if I am moving on it backwards and my rising into |
| 0:47.6 | illusions of falling into standards and how much of my stress and is from |
| 0:51.4 | expectations wearing then on my skin and killing me softly? |
| 0:55.8 | So I give my fears a name. |
| 0:59.0 | I pluck them up my eye and find my own kind of sane and rest. |
| 1:03.0 | Not every single moment is a test, |
| 1:05.0 | so I try my best surprise and take a breath like |
| 1:08.0 | at the zenith of my inhale, I know, |
| 1:12.0 | oh, I'm gonna be all right I'm gonna be just fine I know |
| 1:17.0 | breathe Oh, breathe. Just breathe. |
| 1:27.0 | At the centers of my inhale I know that I'm gonna be alright |
| 1:39.6 | that I'm gonna be all right that I'm gonna be just fine. I know |
| 1:47.0 | We carving out our own paths no blueprint a map but no trust fun pockets |
| 1:52.0 | Those times we swim in extra laps, check to paycheck, |
| 1:55.0 | chipping at it like an architect. |
| 1:58.0 | But it's too hellous slow, |
| 2:00.0 | Light means go, more ebbs and flows, |
| 2:02.0 | self-deprecate on the endless grow back up where my freeway at. |
| 2:10.0 | I look for you black sheep in the sea of machines through your art we reimagine what this world can be |
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