"Life is good, who's asking?", calls the cracked voice of RIZ LA VIE on the chorus of "Napkins", his first official release in over eight months. The writing on this new single feels like the antithesis of the regimented, pseudoscientific burden of traditional pop writing. On it, the NYC artist snatches words out of the cosmos and positions them in a context from which the listener can derive meaning. It is the lyrical rawness and semi-calculated randomness of Chance The Rapper and the raggedy vocal raspiness of Allan Rayman, unapologetically pro-life, and accepting of life's yin and yang. Listen.
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