— Underground rapper, Mutant Academy member, and Richmond, Virginia’s own Fly Anakin shares his latest song “YOUGOTME!!”.
The track, produced by Quelle Chris, is a relentless return to solo work for Anakin, with Frank’s razor-sharp delivery from its opening notes to the final piano key. Just last month, Anakin ushered in the official debut full-length for the Richmond musical collective Mutant Academy that he co-founded alongside Henny L.O. with Keep Holly Alive, an 18-track masterclass in technical ability and familial chemistry from a group looking to stamp its place in the tapestry of Hip-Hop groups.
Having spent the majority of the past decade honing his craft with consistent Mutant Academy releases as well as a prolific run of solo projects, Anakin broke new ground in 2020 with his widely-lauded joint album with Pink Siifu, FlySiifu’s, and the accompanying $mokebreak EP a year later. That project opened up a new sound and community for Anakin who has seized on that project’s success to cement himself as a leader in rap’s underground renaissance with his critically-acclaimed studio debut album Frank in 2022, which landed on best of the year lists at Bandcamp, HipHopDX, OkayPlayer, Uproxx and more. His subsequent dual-sided mixtape series with Foisey, Skinemaxxx, demonstrated that he could be versatile and adapt to more experimental and boisterous production, leading to Pitchfork describing him as “the single best pure rapper in the scene.”
Listen to “YOUGOTME!!” above and stay tuned for more new music from Fly Anakin next solo project coming soon.