Song You Need: Fly Anakin is constantly on edge

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Fly Anakin has never been one to rest on his laurels. The first installment of his Skinemaxxx project with the producer Foisey, a fellow Richmond native and Mutant Academy member is less than a month a way, but he couldn’t resist dropping a surprise mixtape over the weekend, in the thick of that project’s rollout.

stop tryna hack my facebook arrives on the one-year anniversary of Frank, Anakin’s first official studio LP. It’s a short and-sweet digestif, six quick tracks that never cross the two-and-a-half-minute mark, with a 35-second skit dropped smack in the middle.

The sketch, “Tuesday in Baltimore,” is (appropriately) all about smacking, with Baltimore emcee Theravada rattling off a list of people he allegedly smacked — including a bus driver, a pilot, and himself — with Anakin egging him on.

Read Next: Song You Need: Fly Anakin’s brooding “Blicky Bop” What comes next — a silky-sounding yet paranoid cut called “French Quarters” — is less silly. “I’m in the whip passing judgment / But I’m the one smacked in public,” featured guest Big Kahuna OG begins, setting a scene in which both rappers seem to be checking over their shoulders every time they deliver a pointed punchline.