While it’s hard to play favorites, there are moments on the effort in which Leikeli simply shines. Enter: “Iron Mike”—Leikeli in her finest hour as she laces the cut in belligerence while offsetting it with a touch of femininity. It’s a formula that she knows well and it reverberates throughout Acryclic as the RCA signee gives us a guided tour on the beauty and pains of Black life in America.
This weekend, masked Brooklyn emcee Leikeli47 arrived with her Acrylic album, the follow-up to Wash & Set in a beauty-themed trilogy of projects. Clocking in at a healthy 19 tracks total, Acryclic presents a set of songs that simply can’t be skipped through—a rare feat for such a stacked output.
“[Acrylic is] an invitation to walk to our campuses, hence ‘Roll Call,’ it’s an invitation to our love stories, hence the song I have called ‘Top Down,’” she tells VIBE. “It’s just another creative way for me to just let people know where I’m from and give people a little insight about me, the area I grew up, my friends, my schools. Black life, period. ‘Come on in, y’all, come on in. Let’s party, let’s do it’.”
Quotable Lyrics
This that rarely interviewed
And that hardly ever seen
If you want to get a view
You gon’ need to buy a seat
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