Space Afrika - "B£E (ft. Blackhaine)" (Official Video)

The lead single "B£E ft. Blackhaine" from Space Afrika's "Honest Labour" on Dais Records.
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"B£E" credits:
Starring: Space Afrika, Blackhaine, Rainy Miller
Creative Direction: Space Afrika, Blackhaine, Rory A Wood
Producer: Tom Heyes, Space Afrika
Director & Editor: Rawtape
DoP / Grade - Elliot Holbrow
1st AC - Jessy Busgeeth
Make-Up: Alex Lezza
Styling: Cal Mac
Driver(s): Joe Shenton, Cameron Elkington
Dogs: Rawbullys NW & Bashmash Bullys UK
Thumbnail photo: Timon Benson
Manchester duo Space Afrika make music of what they term “overlapping moments” - oblique mosaics of dialogue, rhythm, texture, and shadow, half-heard through a bus window on a rainy night. Honest Labour, the group's first full-length since 2020's landmark hybtwibt? mixtape, expands the project's palette with classical strings, shimmering guitar, and visionary vocal cameos, leaning further into their enigmatic fusion of ambient unrest and cosmic downtempo. It's a sound both fogged and fragmented, at the axis of song craft and sound design, born from and for the yearning solitudes of life under lockdown.
The album title is tiered, alluding to a legendary patriarch from co-founder Joshua Inyang's Nigerian family tree (who was lovingly called “Honest Labour” for his loyalty and resilience) as well as the nature of self-designated work, such as Space Afrika's music - a “labor of love” in its truest sense. With fellow co-founder Joshua Reid recently relocated to Berlin, the pair began sharing files last fall, piecing together poetic vignettes of looping haze and found sound, inspired by the notion of “records that leave an impression, and help the listener deal with their life.” As the isolation of Covid compounded with the worsening winter, the songs skewed increasingly introspective and emotive, reflecting a mood of dissipating futures and the infinite nocturnal unknown.
The artists cite two core motivations for Honest Labour: to transcend the sum of their influences, and “to show what we're capable of.” Both ambitions are entirely realized. The collection's 19 tracks flow with a synergy and sophistication as rare as they are radical, untethered to the dusty dub-techno templates of Space Afrika's early years. These are interstitial anthems, expressionistic and open-ended, delirious but deliberate, attuned to the drift and dreamstate of the present moment: “Ultimately this is an homage to U.K. energy, and an album about love and loss.”
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LYRICS:
All alone in the flat all I see is cracked windows
I’m putting hazed in the air
Dressed in black
Do you think I care
Blank face there in the dark like prayer
Dogs on the leash 120 on dash
110s on the feet, fog blends in the flat
Rocks turned into ash
Relapse
Block dreams in the crack
Man are trynna get rich at the top of the map
There’s a grave inside your mouth I press against
I was lurking for religion I’m no saint from where the rain won’t go away
I press the stainless altercate
My vision blurry stomach ache
I never work an honest day, I’m in the corner bathe in grey
Shave an eight, I blaze up in accords,
Floodlights shining razors for us
Cutting up these things I held
These shots are babies name them for us
Stained I forwards, bloody rags upon my skin
thorns they slip down on my head
I hear the screams no sound affect
I’m down in red
I’m in the ends trynna put the steel down again
Carry wood
On the hillside surrounding men
Lost men
Trynna sell them a pound of flesh
I’m in the ends
With the blade down my trousers wet
Used to smoke weed it got stressed
Getting money is the only way I’m blessed
Red rose get a ton I’m pressed
In the city where there’s no one left
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[@spaceafrika1675]

We lit !!!! Let’s goo

[@talkingmudcrab718]

"Used to smoke weed to get me stressed" I felt that. 😔

[@johncasey7389]

I love this track and the video is perfect. A great way for me to be introduced to Blackhaine. Thanks to Dais Records for continuing to hook us up with great, great music.

[@alondathomas293]

Love this video, and the colors in it too.

[@JSTNtheWZRD]

BOOM! FROM CHICAGO!!!! too real !!!

[@BNoble86]

This is the blues. Astonished.

[@alondathomas293]

Love the hell out of the drums on this---sounds like someone beating on the top of trashcans in the street, and that weird droning voice sample---along with Blackhaine dropping rhymes in his incredibly thick british accent---totally makes this a marvelous song.

[@Godnessification]

Great music.... one of the best hiphop song I have listened this year

[@RayBotva]

this is as fresh as the Streets' debut back in the day

[@bryceeden]

Yaaaaaasssss

[@northmob9206]

Big up everyone involved in this one

[@BruitFantome]

Pre-ordered . Sick track.

[@marth766]

Love

[@jonathanblack9564]

Pure Vybez

[@gahb4326]

First time I listened to this track was last week watching them live and it was a great surpise! love it

[@M.as.e]

Beautiful video. Need more of this energy/ passion up North for realll!

[@alondathomas293]

Like this video, too.

[@Lukas-vl7ql]

Jheeez 🥶

[@slothgasm]

Wow. I’m speechless

[@noblemanorproductions1829]

This one gonna be heavy!

[@hideous9]

pre ordered!

[@SmithBboy]

this so beautiful

[@petertyukasz4980]

Love this!~

[@SculpArts]

💨💨💨

[@collingoldfrey9728]

Sick staff of what I've seen in Instagram

[@MrOmario3]

Rainy in the cut let’s fucking go☔️🎻

[@2styles2furious]

large up

[@northmob9206]

Space Akrica smashed this

[@MJS2727]

Awsome ur the best channel ever

[@hforspirit]

top.

[@sangwooyi5594]

Sick!!!!!!!

[@federicaaziani]

Some of the best music ever 🩸

[@alexferreira3929]

Damnnnnnnn 🔥🔥🔥

[@novo_ephemera]

throbbing gristle!

[@luke_pickering]

Sick

[@danielmcilvenny776]

MASSIVELY underated!!! track of the year for me fuck man video is dope af as well thank you Space Afrika and Dais you guys kiling it

[@TheS0upp]

Whem the melody and strings kicks in Im like dude 100% UK

[@bodmaaan]

This is so wavey

[@ludovicafecarotta1788]

Sick!!!!

[@jemandhuman5039]

+1 for the disco 2

[@albertorandi6801]

Great track!

[@TRUECRIMELoser]

I'm in

[@Fiend404]

sick

[@MOBBLORDS]

💸

[@ruthlessproducer]

my word this is so good :)

[@zombiekillerronsta]

this fire

[@zoemcpherson9022]

[@ssclewss]

2:33 The White Hotel 😎

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

best

[@rbdriftin]

Brilliant

[@NoToRiOuSXR]

Woi oiii oiii

[@stonewhite3576]

Earth is flat so technically speaking top of the map is north pole which in turn is the center of our local pond.

[@henryhill92]

Is... is that the IK Multimedia demo mode noise blast?

[@ys621]

this matrix sequel is tight

[@ivangeldbojemeda]

At first I was like is this Dais ?! but by the end of this journey it just felt right

[@charlesabbott6078]

big vid!!

[@wassimmbarki1609]

goose fucking bumps, all love

[@PhilipSatherley]

awesome! is that a Scorn sample running through it?!

[@BattleBazOnline]

White stormzy

[@calholdenx]

Proper fucking fellas.

[@tobybower1886]

the fuckin creweee

[@pietracaldasss]

I want to see Nina Kraviz version

[@allee8597]

Watch her live set from Croatia 🇭🇷 this week, plays this last song of her set

[@iluha_b]

Space Afrika - B£E ft. Blackhaine (aya wavefold)

[@BRANDOOOOOOM]

50p withit

[@user-yj7kl1nj1z]

космически

[@overtonwindowshopper]

wait is it just me or does one dude look like lil b

[@uggggggghhhhh]

Why did i think he was black