VID
by Baky Popile · 2022 · rap-kreyol, hip-hop · 3:40 · Haitian Creole
VID is Baky Popile in his coldest register. The title points at emptiness, and the writing stays there — pressure, absence, and what is left once the noise has gone — across three and a half minutes that never warm up or offer relief. This is the rapper who broke through with Paske m se Ayisyen, a song written out of anger about how Haitians were being treated, applying the same refusal to soften to a subject that is entirely interior. Reaching a large audience has not thinned the writing; if anything the severity is why it travels.