Manasseh

The song begins as a soulful ballad that takes an altered minimalist approach and builds slowly introducing new instrumentation every phrase. Uncertainty and mistrust can be felt in the opening lyrics, as Manasseh describes the turmoils of “looking for love in all the wrong places.” The song crescendos until hitting a breaking point, where it transitions into the hypnotic and smooth delivery of Chicago based emcee J-Hop’s feature verse. The slow drag on his flow matches the beat behind him perfectly. Manasseh mirrors this style as he takes a verse to close out the track. The closing/outro of the track feels like he flips the channel on the radio just as quickly as we tend to change our minds, and just as quickly as we tend to fall in and out of relationships.

This Groove

Fall In Mud

Don't Love Me (ft. Boog Liberace)

This track is an honest look at a “less than fruitful relationship”, opening with a shout-out to a certain ungrateful…person out there. Finding the words to say in a situation like this is either difficult, or as simple as that first line. Over a tightly produced Shpeshftr (L.A. VanGogh) beat, Manasseh’s vocal arrangement expands the landscape of the song. Through this expansion, he portrays a relationship he was a part of that just can’t continue, because it’s almost impossible to fix a relationship that didn’t work from the start; like chasing the moonlight.