“The Toronto singer-songwriter depicts an embattled world with a gentle touch”
“On his debut solo album, the Toronto artist formerly known as Mustafa the Poet confronts grief and dispossession over understated production with folk-music overtones.”
“Growing up on Toronto’s Regent Park estate, Mustafa Ahmed first turned to poetry to bear witness to his neighbourhood’s difficult stories. After a spell as a songwriter for hire (credits include the Weeknd and Camila Cabello), his eight-track debut album harks back to his own experience and channels the trauma of loved ones lost to gun violence. On the song Ali, he mourns the friend he lost in 201”
