“You can hear hints of a few rappers in MIKE’s delivery, but his irreverence for hip-hop’s tried-and-true song structures feels like a page out of the books of Jay Electronica and MF Doom. Verses? One will suffice. A hook? Sure, if he feels like it. On his latest track, “Gods With me”—a loosie in advance of his forthcoming album May God Bless Your Hustle—his arrangement feels like a freehand sketch”
