Lucki Eck$
Chicago rapper Lucki Eck$ began to infiltrate the radar of the hip-hop blogosphere with last year’s Alternative Trap project, but the 18 year old recently became the subject of water cooler conversations worldwide due to his surprise collaboration with the unstoppable avant-garde RnB artist FKA twigs. The lo-fi, VHS-recorded visuals for their track Ouch Ouch feature twigs in a dimly-lit bedroom with a snake for company, and shit gets particularly bizarre after she swallows some jewellery. So what did Lucki make of the clip? “First time I saw the Ouch Ouch video, I was on a lot of Xan. So I don’t remember my how I felt.” Ok then…
But the unlikely pair both share a love of adventurous, complexly percussive beats, and Lucki makes sure to express his respect for the English chanteuse: “I like that she knows what she wants in music, she makes the beats and she is the voice”. And while his sunken-eyed, croaky flow reflects his open love for pharmaceuticals, the wit in Lucki’s wordplay proves him to be a sharp-minded lyricist (he originally named himself in reference to Malcolm X, and decided later to spell out the letter due to a friend using a similar moniker).
And with a habit for channelling a moody, nocturnal vibe in his music, what kind of frame of mind does he need to be in order to create? “I like it to be quiet and I like to be alone”, he says. It’s a response, you could argue, that’s not so different to what we’ve come to expect from his snake-fondling collaborator.
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