Wiki delivers his first proper solo album since 2019’s Oofie, and it’s a focused one. Lifelong New Yorker Patrick Morales’ introspective, lightly melancholic street rap sits in a tradition that goes back to Biggie and Wu-Tang — slices of city life that feel both minute and expansive. On another level, Ancient History is something more, a quietly psychedelic album mixing the dreamlike weightlessness of post-Earl Sweatshirt underground rap with the melodic directness of soul and R&B. Production comes from the Alchemist, Nick Hakim, Navy Blue, and Laron, plus Mount Kimbie under his Dom Maker alias and MIKE as dj blackpower. Your Old Droog, duendita, and Salimata make appearances without ever pulling the center away from Wiki’s defined, lived-in vision.
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