“Judas (outro)” is the last track on Supa Bwe’s Mausoleum EP. I wrote about the EP when it came out on Valentine’s Day, but this song requires extra attention. It’s a bare and direct expression of the pain resulting from the dissolution of a partnership. The title “Judas” states betrayal and we all know that a break up of any magnitude is a difficult loss which is why the song resonates. Supa expresses “This is supposed to be our time, we worked we all shined. We supposed to grind when it’s hard times, look at you now cutting all ties…I know loss, I know losing. I know, I know truth…” (The whole song is quotable, read the lyrics here.) Supa’s verse is brave in it’s candid admission of losing something he wanted to keep. When Mick Jenkins says “I been down and up and down again, couple scratches on my crown again. I get lost but then I found my friends, one’s that hold me down, you supposed to drown when that shit real right? This shit just don’t feel right. Down.” He distills the emotions purely. I’m a Mick Jenkins fan and always enjoy his music, but this is an especially intimate and warm sounding vocal performance. The refined and sparse music by Mulatto Beats and Samii Beatz is just right in it’s precision and matches the emotional lyrics perfectly.
