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GoldLink’s second studio album, is unlike anything he put out before it. “I wanted to challenge myself,” the Washington, D.C., rapper, singer and songwriter tells Apple Music. “I wanted to almost make an album that was an antonym to what GoldLink was perceived to be.” Here, the dance-floor grooves and soulful funk that jetted him to stardom have been swapped for bone-crunching distortion and seething, noisy rage—a reflection of GoldLink’s mood at a time when George Floyd’s murder was still a raw, open wound.