The latest single from Charles X, "Foresight," hits you in the gut like a heavyweight champ, straight-up, and loud. Off his new 18-track release aptly titled "Miscellanea," “Foresight” is an ocean's roar. Charles X draws you in from the opening bar of this track, taking you to a world that doesn't prettify struggle or gloss over feelings with pop sheen. The song exudes urgency, vulnerability, and a raw soul, holding its own as a testament to the fact that music can still hold sentimental value.
Out of the gate with a pounding beat under mournful synths, 'Foresight' unfolds like a premonition as it unfolds. Charles puts in his raps not to flex, but to reflect. Purpose in every verse, intention in every beat. It's a song that makes you freeze, "FGSOZ", keep scrolling, turn it up, and want to listen.
This track is based on real life, like the rest of "Miscellanea". Charles X started making music at 11 years old to help survive the ordeal of becoming a man in America, being black. He didn't pursue recognition, but liberation. And that spirit remains core to his every creation.
Where “Foresight” is different, though, is that it refuses to comply. There is hardly any top-level flexing. What does it offer, however? Empathy and truth, which is perhaps the most dangerous thing you can still seek in America today. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that this alternative path has brought him underground acclaim all over Europe, including plaudits from Télérama and Rolling Stone Italy, with performances alongside giants such as The Pharcyde, Pharoahe Monch. Then again, who even bothers giving Charles X a seal of approval? He makes history.
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