Welcome A New Season w/ Childish Major's "Know Nothing"

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Childish Major's music is the equivalent of sitting back-to-back on opposite sides of the bed with your significant other -- silent and plagued by a dying connection. In his latest drop, Know Nothing, the artist/producer gives both parties a reason to finally walk away.

Infiltrating Major's anxious, self-produced mind first is an uproar from the sampled alarm/horn synonymous in J Dilla songs like The Diff'rence or Gobstopper, bringing along stuttered chords that tragically clamp the song in a permanent state of love lost. The simultaneous four-count transition to the skating percussion fight to get away first while his distant, smothered bass drum and weakened kicks perform their best distractions to dance off the pain. Know Nothing's nubilous rhythm, superb synthesizer chord shots in the counter melody along with the melody from the tearful progression ironically  descend in a sound like a freeing heartbreak. It hurts because it is expected, but there is extra space for something new. Childish's vocals actually protest it at every step.

Childish Major's remorseful vocals funnel directly into the hook. His calescent melody gives the hook a natural rock that sounds like a plea in the scheme of the track. The pre-hook and hook are made easy to recite in the first listen, giving extreme context to Major's verse(s). His combative verse runs an irritated cadence with a listing flow, overpowered by sexual frustrations and history. Childish's verse flows like thoughts during a nighttime drive. The Atlanta double threat pens and produces a romantic episode with a worthy cliffhanger. The latter end with more music will be something, but for now, we can at least know nothing.

Listen to Know Nothing below.

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