Back in 2020, Maryland-based artists Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals found a winning formula with their collaborative debut Rhino XXL, the first in a series of full-album projects that will extend into April with their newly announced third team-up, A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears. This latest project is the product of a stressful period marked by personal struggles and lost sound files—though you’d never know, given that emcee Ennals is as darkly humorous as ever on each of these all-too-real capsules of frustration while Tariq Ravelomanana’s instrumentals sound more eclectic than ever.
They’re introducing the project today with lead single “Sometimes, Papi Chulo,” a song that particularly resonates at the tail end of what feels like the longest month in recent memory. The upbeat, cumbia-inspired beat gives way to increasingly spiraling reflections on our most shameful moments as human beings. “This song is just a reflection of all the peaks and valleys that kinda encompass daily existence,” Ennals shares. “From the mundane to the joyful to the tragic. I tried to make it equally funny and depressing, like life.”
The song’s music video, however, seems to focus on how the peaks sometimes lead to the valleys as the duo is seen engaging in just about all the vices one could think of. “We got drunk and even drunker throughout the first shoot, and one of the scenes is actually us fighting,” Ravelomanana recalls.
Check it out below.
