After the breakout success of 2021 debut Smiling With No Teeth brought his high-energy rap/funk/punk worldwide, including stadium shows opening for Paramore, Ghanaian Australian singer Genesis Owusu dives into existential challenges on recent sophomore follow-up STRUGGLER. Influenced by Franz Kafka’s 1915 novel The Metamorphosis, Owusu envisions himself as a roach trying not to get killed by God. Harrowing shit, but lead single “Leaving the Light” bangs.
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