TEK "Lights Out" (7 OnDa ComeOut) [VIDEO]

TEK — Tekomin Williams, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, one half of Smif-N-Wessun, Boot Camp Clik since Black Moon's Enta Da Stage in 1993. "Lights Out" arrives as a solo cut without the machinery of a campaign behind it, which is consistent with how TEK has always operated outside of Smif-N-Wessun: direct, unannounced, no repositioning. The flow that made "Bucktown" hit in 1994 and powered Dah Shinin' into classic status is the same register he works in now — gritty, locked-in, distinctly Brooklyn in a way that isn't performance but habit. Thirty-plus years in the game and the delivery still has weight. "Lights Out" doesn't try to be anything other than what it is: TEK on the mic, the beat underneath, done.