Simama Kando

This song is the most playful one in this section for sure, simply because of the dumb shit I say in the choruses (not that I didn't enjoy doing it). It's a song where I'm gassing myself up and trying to sound cool on the beat, but I guess it also serves as a reminder that I'm not going to spend the entire album trying to be serious.

The hi-hat patterns that waytoolost used on this beat made for a groove I'd never quite heard on a drill beat before, and it put me in more of a light-hearted mood the second I heard the drums for the first time. The hook is the first thing that came to mind while I was vibing to the beat, and I tried building out some funny situations around it to catch the attention of the listener: Who starts a song by asking you if your breath stinks?

Placing this song where I did made sense because it serves as a bit of a break from the intensity that had been rising from "Twenny 21" to "Masculine", while it's also followed by another drill track that brings back some of that intensity with its subject matter, and I feel like that allows Substance to end on a punchy note before moving into Sippin' and Trippin'.