Pink Siifu Covers Gonjasufi for SoS and The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
"I'm gonna always bump music. Probably first. I have made music outta feeling...I feel like I go through a lot of different moods. I have a lot of different thoughts in my head. I know a lot of people that go through stuff that inspires me to write about something. So half the songs you might hear me rapping about that might not even be nothing about me, or it might not be how I felt. It might be what I heard the homie talking about or a conversation I had with people and how they felt - their perspective. So I use all that to kind of feel something. Or it might be a conversation I seen on Twitter. It's so much stuff. So yeah, I feel like I try to put just a lot of different energies and emotions in my music from different perspectives and then, and that causes all the scattering." - @PinkSiifu
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Today, we're excited to release our next video in partnership with the @988Lifeline featuring the prolific and genre-hopping Pink Siifu. In this installment of our 'Song That Found Me At The Right Time' series, he puts his spin on cult hero @gonjasufi3118 2012 track “Sheep”.
We have been fans of Siifu going back to his punk-influenced 2020 album "NEGRO," and we've since fallen in love with his eclectic body of work. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to partner with him for our school programming, where we joined forces with MTV and NYC students to explore the intersection of mental health and music. As a result of this collaboration, we were honored to be invited into his home and insight into his life beyond the music . He shares this life with his partner, fellow musician Ss.Sylver, and their twin children. The duo delivered a powerful performance that brought to mind some of their edgier, punk-influenced songs. Making this collaboration even more special, it was shot by Brendan Canty, Fugazi drummer and hardcore legend who is also a stellar Director.
Siifu's rendition of the track is both deeply meaningful and effortlessly relaxed, with each note gracefully leaning into to the next, evoking a compelling mix of emotions – a blend of sadness and joy
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"I wish I was a sheep
Instead of a lion
Cause then I wouldn't have to eat
Animals that are dying
I wish I was a sheep
Instead of a lion
Cause then I wouldn't have to eat
This meat that is dying
I wish I was
One of your sheep
Only because
I wouldn't have to kill to eat"
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