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SHARES NEW SINGLE “THAT AIN’T PAT”
14K FIGARO OUT NOVEMBER 10TH VIA WIKSET ENTERPRISE
Wiki’s new album, 14K Figaro, arrives after a slew of collaborative projects released alongside the likes of The Alchemist and MIKE, Navy Blue, Subjxct5, and NAH. As much as it represents a return to his solo platform, it’s also a return to the ethos he initially embraced years ago when he was a gap-toothed latchkey kid balancing graduation with looming legend.
The album is produced entirely by Tony Seltzer, a longtime collaborator who helped soundtrack his earliest efforts — including No Mountains in Manhattan, his 2017 debut album for XL Recordings, and Oofie, its potent 2019 follow-up. “This the city that we live in,” Wiki raps in “The Routine,” a single from Oofie. “I just wanna kick some wisdom to the kids that’s finna run that.” 14K Figaro sees him not only dissecting the city for its dwellers but doing so with figures who either came up alongside him or are actively extending his East-Coast lineage.
14K Figaro is the footprint of a more mature Wiki, eschewing the brash rhetoric he entered music with in favor of a more nuanced, process-oriented vision. “On this tape, it’s not like I’m all good,” Wiki says. “It’s more a document of me going through it.” Compared to his earliest efforts, which casted him as a vexed protagonist navigating a city and an industry — both unforgiving — this record is less about someone fighting against the world and more about someone living in it. As Wiki steps further away from days of having to prove himself, his city-bred tales are getting more breathing room than they’ve ever had before. 14K Figaro is a snapshot of its creator’s career-long dichotomy: at the same time that he’s a living legend, he’s also a person you can dap up on the street.
Features include the World’s Fair MC Remy Banks, the Bruiser Brigade spitter Zelooperz, and the prolific D.C. native WifiGawd. More than ever, Wiki stands as an anchor between past and future — for New York, for hip-hop, and for himself.
Wiki & Tony Seltzer
14K Figaro
November 10, 2023
Wikset Enterprise
1. Triple Figaro
2. Turkish Gold
3. RL (feat. WiFiGawd)
4. Purity
5. Scenic Route (feat. Remy Banks)
6. Numb
7. Fried Ice Cream (feat. Zelooperz)
8. Lilypad
9. That Aint Pat
10. Bubba
11. Golden Child
12. The Enterprise
13. Weed Song
14. New Religion
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