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Human visions of the future usually say more about the zeitgeist of the epoch from which they come than about what is actually to come: Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” as a reaction to the booming, socially divided New York of the 1930s is a good example. And so the musical vision of the future that the anonymous rap duo Yung Kafa & Kücük Efendi, hiding behind animated avatars, develops on their debut album CHEF is more an expression of the current zeitgeist than anticipating future living environments. Because such a radical individualism, as it unfolds from the two rappers on the confusingly similar seventeen album songs, fits perfectly into our time. For the future, however, only if it should actually consist of NFTs and hyperuniverses.
Even if Yung Kafa & Kücük Efendi do not want to betray their bourgeois identity and also preach the dissolution of the rapping subject in music, it becomes clear on CHEF that a certain class is articulated here, namely those who share the following non-experience: “I don’t know how to cook myself, because we’ve always (…) served us”. Not only in view of the thousands of dining and food delivery services that are springing up all over the place! The airy sound of the album, which arises from the skilful fusion of melodic trap beats, floating synths and the filigree head voices of the rappers, also waves like the flag in the wind.
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