Knife Smile

Hip-hop with a slow head-nod bounce, sparse kick and snare, muted bass pulses, and fractured piano stabs; verse rides tight and conversational, pre-chorus opens with stacked doubles and a rising filter, chorus hits with a chantable hook and gang vocals, bridge pulls back to near-silence before the final return. Close-mic male vocal, dry and intimate in verses, wider doubles on the hook, reverse swells and tape-stop transitions, gritty low-end mix with sharp top-end punch., happy