Emerging UK rapper/ songwriter Tazzy’s newest single "PAPERS" is the follow-up to her previous release "M2M" and continues her style of social commentary-driven raps. While the previous single focused on her own personality, "PAPERS" sees her taking listeners deep into the dark crevices of her neighbourhood, exposing us to all the ills, pitfalls and wrong turns, albeit from a safe distance. Lines like "Young nigga grow in the city, just misunderstood/Trying to find my way out, if I make it, can't be bad for good/if you really love me like you say you do then let me know" remind listeners that we shouldn't judge a. book by its cover and there is more than meets the eye when it comes to being black in the white man's world. Bolstered by a gloomy and melancholic backdrop crafted by Karn Beats', Tazzy delivers a plethora of vivid images with her stylish and animated cadence that has a tinged of NY and if we didn't know better we wouldn't have guessed she was from the UK.
The accompanying video is as gloomy as the track and the use of black and white aesthetic also adds to the solemnness of the topic at hand.
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