I want you for a moment to take yourself back to the first time you listen to

Kani West Yezes. Remember the feeling you got when he first heard the album's

opening moments and that distorted synth hits you like a punch in the mouth. Recall the shock you might have felt when you first heard a line like this.

Black girl sipping white wine, put my fist in a like a civil right sign.

And remember the feeling of awe and invigoration you likely experienced when hearing this moment for the very first time.

So let's be on with it.

We could have been somebody.

Said you had to tell somebody. But then, after nine songs dominated by dissonance, distortion, and musical warfare,

you reach the album's final track, which by comparison emerges like a glimmering oasis.

The contrast between this and everything that came before it is stunning, like a diamond

suddenly crystallizing out of years of violent pressure.

It's a moment that now, after years of listening, we might take for granted.

But today, after unpacking how bound to brilliantly pays off and resolve so many musical,

thematical, and narrative motifs set up throughout the entire album and story?

I'm hoping, in some sense, you'll be able to hear the song again for the very first time.

From Spotify, I'm cool Kushna, and this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short

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