In the new single "Keno," Antistar peels away the luster to expose all of the emotional fallout that comes with absence and lost love, featuring Tedis. This is a confession, laid bare through pointed bars and a desolate delivery. It’s all meat and potatoes, and there’s no posturing here, no emotional camouflage. Just rawness and grit served straight.
This song's verse plays like a lyrical risk, each bar exposing the stakes of emotional distance and the silent wreckage it leaves in its wake. Antistar’s voice has a kind of world-weariness that speaks to experience and a certain rhythm in the cadence, confident despite its jaggedness. The beat is intentionally pale, which allows his words some space to breathe and to bruise.
What makes "Keno" different is that it doesn’t sensationalize pain. There are no stand-ins for emotion in metaphors, just clear-eyed storytelling that hits hard only because it doesn’t swing too hard. Antistar sounds like a voice who’s been through it and returned to testify.
In an age when much of rap is based on bravado, this song's levelheadedness is refreshing. It’s a gentle storm, honest, bruising, real. Antistar is here to link up, and "Keno" does that with brutal grace.