CHROMAKOPIA Is A Gorgeous, Wowing Album That Encapsulates the Time We Live In

By ARABELLA FRACISCO

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Arabella Fracisco’s original review first appeared in the November 2024 issue of The Southerner, a student-written and student-produced newspaper at South High School in Minneapolis. The Southerner can be found online at www.shsoutherner.net.

Editor’s Note: The last 2 months the alley featured the first 10 tracks of Arabella’s thoughtful and inviting review of CHROMAKOPIA. This month we conclude with the final four tracks.

Thought I Was Dead is the eleventh track on the album and is about Okonma embracing his provocative persona, bringing up past controversies and expectations addressing them in his own playful yet rebellious way. “Everything I said I do, I did. Talk my shit? I sure damn will. You ain’t like that shit? I’ll do it again.” The track also features ScHoolboy Q and Santigold, their verses elevating the song.

The twelfth track on the album, Like Him, featuring Lola Young, beautifully tells the story of the absence of a father. At the beginning Okonma’s mom is telling Okonma how similar he is to his father. “She said that I make expressions like him, my legs to my shoulders and my chin like him, my waist and my posture like him.”… Read the rest “CHROMAKOPIA Is A Gorgeous, Wowing Album That Encapsulates the Time We Live In”