SimmySimmyNYA’s 14 records project is a first row seat to a magnificent movie based on the real life activities of Simphiwe Peta aka SimmySimmyNYA. It’s a very personal project with only two features from: XwaenO' and Ohgooch.
The opening record titled Act As If sums up how unhappy he is and how he always has to pretend to be so for the sake of his image as a musician.
“I am not the happiest but I gotta act as if, reason why I smoke a cannabis to relax a bit/ What it's like to be me, I couldn’t tell you that life is different from the side that you see/ sometimes I wanna be me, but I am a sight to be seen/ minding my own till I am bumping into a fan on the side of the street/”
On the second verse he also opens up about how he sometimes gets suicidal, “Instead I wanna grab a knife from the kitchen and slice all my wrists till my life none existent.” This is a dope and relatable record. Nicely placed as the intro, it keeps one wanting to know what else happens in Simmy’s life.
On Tank On E he further highlights how there’s two sides to him over an immaculate mid-tempo beat produced by Pysc’. “There are two sides to a ni??A like I am 2Face/” He also touches on an issue that’s affecting a lot of young African men, wrongful imprisonment. “Trying to lock an educated ni??a up, five-o ain't satisfied until they see us in some cuffs uh.”
On the third record titled Word the rapper lets us in on how the hustle is paying off thus far, getting money and not having to spend it for entrances and liquor in night clubs since it’s now all coming for free.“Spending my own gwala that I made off jumping on stage/Money ain’t long as white people’s but its k- +k okay k-k/ don’t know half the people that I am greeting back/” “I don’t pay for entrance anymore, I don’t buy no bottles all I do is pour/”
It’s A Movie and Medicine (Nowhere slowly) have this laid-back and infectious delivery and they’re all about turning up. “If you got that booty girl sondela, sihl' ubusha pop bodlhela kodwa kusasa siya e sgela,” he sings on It’s A Movie.
“My cup is hella muddy from the codeine, I’m sipping dirty sprite but I be so clean," He raps on Medicine. Simmy’s witty usage of words on these records paint a perfect picture on what really happens when he decides to turn up; it’s lit, most especially now that bottles are coming in for free. Great production on both records by Psyc’ and Grim Delarosa, not too many instruments on both beats just the necessary ones.
Come Thru is one of the two songs on this project with features and it’s a great collaborative effort. OhGooch delivers an excellent hook over a well produced beat by Beatsmith. This is an assurance song to the girls in these gentlemen’s lives that anytime they need them they will always come through for them. It doesn’t matter the time or place, they’ll pull up. Nice one, if there’s one thing we need as people it's assurance.
Moving right along, track 11 is a captivating record titled Sgidla Waar produced by Psyc’ who is all over the project with nifty productions. On this record Simmy shares a story of a Sgidla Waar he met at a party and wanted to use him but he turned her down even in her fineness. The song has a dope and haunting hook that will have you lose all your morals and just have fun.
The last two records Broken Crayons and Woah, Hey are scenes in which the rapper now takes off the mask and brings forth the real him. “I got too much on my plate, I don’t complain I cope.” On these records he looks for answers to his problems and attempts to face them despite how difficult that endeavour is.
“I can’t handle all this madness I am a broken crayon/
Trying to get myself together I am a broken crayon/”
Unlike the person he was on the first record Act As If, he’s not acting anymore and he seems to have over came the suicidal thoughts, he really opens up and lets us into what he’s really going through. “Rock bottom is a b*!ch, I wanna cry just a bit/ All the happiness I long is short-lived when I get it,” he raps on Woah, Hey.
Look At NYA is a very insightful project with dexterous usage of words. It is greatly conceptualised and structured in an enticing way, every record makes you want to hear the next one and before you know it you're on the last one.
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