Fast ascending as one of Austin’s top young talents in any genre, rapper/producer Malik just dropped visuals to the melancholic “Alone,” first single off his four-star existentialist full-length, The Awakening (II).
“It works for me on a couple levels,” he explains. “The first half of the song you get what feels like a breakup, and the push and pull in a straining relationship. I wanted to paint the picture of a real argument.”
Like many tracks on the incredibly accomplished album, there’s a sudden switch-up, in tone and emotion – not just notating the struggles of relationships, but struggles within himself.
“It’s very much a conversation I’m having in my own head. I’m talking myself through what I’m experiencing, so with those two parts you get the cause and effect.”
This article appears in March 3 • 2017.
