You can read the whole concept off the tracklist, which is the strongest thing about it. Next Friday runs eleven tracks in the order of a working day: "Nightmares," "The Alarm Clock," "The Commute," "Clocking In," "Lunchtime," "Dealing with stupidity," "Clocking Out," "Going Home," then "Electric Relaxation 2," "Severance Package" and "Reset." The last three are the interesting ones after going home comes a Tribe Called Quest reference, then a severance package, then a reset. The day doesn't end at the door; it ends in a loop. The whole thing runs about thirty-three minutes, which means no single stage of the day gets more than three and a half. The title borrows from the Ice Cube film, and the record treats its subject with the same deadpan. BlakMaul is the half with the documented history. He's from Bridgeport, Connecticut, started as a local DJ, and became a mixtape fixture in Sumter, South Carolina in the late nineties under the alias Money Mike the Blak Maulponopoly known for turntablism and an ear for what worked on the street. The tags on this record point where you'd expect given that background: hip-hop, jazz, neo-soul, soul. No production credits are published, so none are named. What's on the page is the running order and a concept that holds from the first track to the last which, for a record about the working day, is the appropriate kind of discipline.
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