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'NMI' reads as "ennemis" (enemies), a homophone that shapes the track's preoccupation with antagonism and isolation. Damso moves between confession and provocation, his voice cutting through production that sits somewhere between trap and something harder to pin down. The song pivots on a simple claim: he writes only what he lives, a posture that admits to moral compromise while refusing apology. Speaking is thinking aloud; thinking is speaking silently. The distinction collapses under the weight of what he has to say. The second verse deepens this. He is a criminal because he speaks the unspeakable, caught between a hatred of both death and life, caught between truth and the lies he tells too often. There is a blackness to his heart, he suggests, and it is running out of time. Around him, enemies multiply. Cannabis blurs into abundance; abundance into numbness. The track does not resolve these tensions so much as let them sit, unreconciled, until the outro arrives with a shrug.
"NMI" is a track by Damso, from the album Lithopédion, released 15th June 2018. Full lyrics are available below.
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