“Pissed Me Off (TxnaTalk 2),” the song that brings Kofi Santana back into the public gaze, reminds us that the hip-hop scene, and the rap-driven worlds that it gave birth to, have always valued the power of the spoken word. And, even though his style and sound are totally of the modern age, running of skittering trap beats and delicious digital sonics, it isn’t hard to draw a line back to those early pioneers of the late seventies who first advanced the genre.
Deft lyrical salvos are fired off, and Kofi Santana tells it like it is, reminding people that he is not someone to be crossed. The beat drives, bass attacks are dropped like depth charges, and shimmering sonics echo stacatto-like through the song.
The urban music sound has come a long way, and as much as it is easy to point to where modern artists and the music that they make have come from, “Pissed Me Off (TxnaTalk 2)” signals that Kofi Santana is only interested in where he is going.
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