🎤 Chicago rapper RoyKinsey gets vulnerable on his latest release, Volume 2: Soft Life. | ✍️ PsalmOne
In this economy, embracing a soft life can be complicated—much like living as a queer Black man anywhere on Earth. Nobody understands this better than Chicago rapper Roy Kinsey. Kinsey’s musical approach is tactical and autobiographical: he works a day job as librarian at a west-side public school, and examination informs his art, resulting in a profound discography.
In person, Kinsey exudes self-assurance and magnetic sexual confidence; he often feels the cold edges of an unforgiving and prejudiced society, but he still wants to play. Kinsey describes his latest project,, as an “audio postcard . . . a li’l love note.” With Mike Jones handling the bulk of production, Kinsey covers a lot of ground across the record’s brief four tracks. Tough-as-nails opener “Stay Dangerous” collides Kinsey’s caustic verses with the kaleidoscopic flow of Mvte .
The viral “Think big, bitch!” TikTok vocal sample sets the tone for Kinsey’s prideful bars on closer “Truly Iconic.” He delivers the lines “Blond hair in my bonnet / I ran shit up at Target / For them coins I’m goin’ Sonic” with breezy bravado over sparse, bouncy production. As artist and activist Ricardo Gamboa said during a Kinsey listening event a couple years back, “This is not reactionary queer hip-hop.
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