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AKA and Anatii - ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’

By Sihle Mthembu

In a minute I will tell you why AKA and Anatii’s Be Careful What You Wish For (BCWYWF) is the best spiritual transformation album in the history of South African hip-hop.

But first let me note, the fact that this album even exists, itself is part of the completion of this cycle of personal transformation. For those with a short memory here is a recap. A few years ago AKA shaded Anatii, rightfully, for his shoddy work on Bananaz. He also called him out on the third verse of Composure. Since then fences have been mended and BCWYWF is the byproduct of that healing process. Fun Fact, AKA no longer performs his verse dissing Anatii on Composure instead he recites only it's opening line. “I'm the reason niggas had The Saga on repeat,” he says and then performs The Saga.

It's the kind of display that one can only read as a sign of respect and a signal to how much Anatii's friendship means to AKA. And here is the glue that holds this project together: BCWYWF is an album that swims against the tide of our preconceived notions of black male friendships and how men in hip-hop ritually bond. The focus is not on money, flashy cars and women or even common enemies, although that is there too, it is ornamental and at best decorative. An entry point to the much more solid foundation on which the album is built.

Anatii is the real surprise on BCWYWF. From his production which has a pop sheen and draws inspiration from Afro-Caribbean sounds and trap thuds, to his catchy and nonchalant lyricism. He has more than a few standout moments on the project not the least of which is his verse on Holy Mountain. Seats are colour of Mshoza is the best description of a colour since Jigga said his favourite hue was Jay-Z blue.

AKA also delivers some of his personal raps to date. Most directly he deals with the blurred lines between the personal and the public. Perhaps because the project is not only tied to the Supermega persona he has created for himself, it offers an outlet to speak with some candour and distance.

At it’s zenith, BCWYWF captures how cathartic black joy can be. Fame and it's afflictions are a recurring theme on the project. On initial listen the up-tempo beats can lull you into thinking this is a party album but there is a long con at play here. Repeatedly AKA and Anatii express their frustrations, fears and family politics with such a passive rage that it might elude you if you’re not paying close attention.

These hyphenated thoughts come off a sustained stream of consciousness. The kinetic song structures and the way the verses sometimes blend into each other like one long verse shows the comfort that the two musicians have with each other and highlights the benefits of ground up production and working together in studio as opposed to emailed verses back and forth.

This is an intricately balanced album with just the right amount of vulnerability for our world where we are used to putting filters on things. When I left baby mama she (his mother) took the shit hard/ might as well turn the drama into a hit song AKA says on the opening track Bryanston Drive. It’s lines like this that make you aware of one of the most underappreciated instruments in AKA’s arsenal. The ability to manipulate his vocals so as to make words that are so far apart phonetically, rhyme.

But beyond the effortless rhyming, the songs are worked like mules and they work for each other to function as part of a cohesive whole. The sequencing and length of the record is nearly perfect. Although I would have ended with Jesus Plug and not included The Saga.

According to the Oxford English dictionary, the word gospel means: “The teaching or revelation of Christ.” But AKA and Anatii's gospel, which was influenced by Kanye's Ultra Light Beam, reaches beyond the confines of organised religion. Theirs is a gospel of prosperity and self-care. As Anatii says in How You Like Me Now: Can’t negotiate the price down/Mama told me get a nice job/Four Seasons on the nightgown/ Make you kinda raise your eyebrow.

BCWYWF is an album seasoned with the things we South Africans consider holy including kwaito samples. On Bryanston Drive, about three minutes in, the instrumental flips from a muffled sci-fi kwaito with a sinister undercurrent and Anatii in his auto-tuned throng says: It's about time we listen to Boom Shaka.

It sounds both like a chant and a call to arms. Listening to it for the first time at my desk at work, I let out a delighted wince. And here is the thing about BCWYWF, it's not just music for passive listening, it is a somatic experience.

What AKA and Anatii have given us is an album’s worth of Instagram captions. They have also given us a project whose power is anchored by the way in which it sincerely documents the state of spiritual transformation it's architects are undergoing.

Anathi Mnyango

He goes by the stage name ANATII, his debut album Artiifact was a double-door opened. He showed to much growth, we found out ukubangaba nguNala, uNdokose, uMpembe.

I want to actually want to focus on his attire in this specific picture. These two items are very prominent in most Xhosa tribes and the colour as well with regards to the headwear. The head band is commonly known as “intsimbi yentloko” however the actual name is Ingqaza and the colour is refered to as (hobe) which is dove in isiXhosa, usually this colour is reserved for royalty that they stand out from any crowd.

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