It wasn’t okay. Who let him in the studio? Though the EP features an array of sonic touchpoints, stretching from boastful West Coast thumps to an unhurried Southern pace, his confessional lyrics are markedly paranoid and remorseful. Pimping, and the allure of the culture built around it, relies on a patriarchal hierarchy unconcerned with the autonomy of sex workers, most of whom are women. If the frame was shifted to center another member of his trade, a different story and a different game might appear. With his infant daughter Maxeene happily resting in his arms, he talked about the ethics of pimping and explained how Kossisko, aka s, was one of the first folks to push him to make music. What do you mean by that? To me, different is a sugar-coated word for weird to the world. I was always called weird.
