Death and taxes. Oh, and a new AKAI SOLO album at the end of every year, too. Make that three in a row since 2022 that the Brooklyn underground rapper has readied a late-coming release to fuck with your year-end listmaking prep work, with No Control, No Glory due out in mid-November. It’s sounding like you’ll want to wait for this one, too, before solidifying anything in stone, as its lead single “Peace to The Heavens!” is fully exalted by a higher conscious of blessings and gratitude while also recognizing there’s still a lot work to do.

“What does me even mean? A difficult decision for you, trying to figure out which pill to pop,” he wonders. “Meanwhile I’m in the queue with killers / It don’t stop, it just get realer.” Bombasted by live drum and basslines produced by groundskeepr and some light FM flutework from Keenyn Omari, the beat makes the rapper’s words go even harder against its daytrippin’ green screen which sees him traveling the world and the cosmos over in its Michael Petrow-directed visuals. Late coming as he may be, it’s always something to be able to go along with AKAI on his big, existential ride through life on his own timing.

Directed by: Michael Petrow

AKAI SOLO’s No Control, No Glory will be released November 14th on Break All Records.