Workin’ On Me – FLVME featuring Ben September [produced by FLVME, ZWAYETOVEN & Kewand], Our Songs of 2022 Highlight

FLVME has cemented himself as one of the savviest voices within trapsoul, having created some of the most enduring songs from the genre in South Africa. Germander 2 was a return to form filled with some of the most indelibly catchy songs of his catalogue. One of the most resonant is a collaboration that finds the CandyMan pairing with the ever-brooding Ben September for an impassioned anthem in Workin’ On Me. Sitting on top of a repitched sample that I originally heard on Cordell Watts’ fuming 7 Nights Interlude, Workin’ On Me finds FLVME and September explaining their mental states after becoming estranged from their respective partners. FLVME is reeling as he describes a deteriorated relationship suffering from a lack of trust that has caused him deep anxiety. On the other side, September has become an insomniac throwing himself into work as a means of coping until his feelings subside. September is far more combative in a verse that details how he felt wronged by his ex during the course of their relationship. Workin’ On Me is an aching piece of trapsoul for when you’re picking up the pieces but aren’t yet whole. It’s a cathartic anthem that finds September at his current best whilst adding to FLVME’s sterling catalogue of enduring torchers.

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