Sido’s Back

Sido’s putting out 30-11-80 as the warm-up to his November album. It’s got basically everyone on it—Bushido, Eko Fresh, Nazar, Frauenarzt, Smudo, Erick Sermon, Moses Pelham, Afrob, and a bunch of others I lost track of. That many features usually means either the track is incredible or it’s trying to do too much. Could be both.

What interests me is that he can even pull this off. Sido vanishes for a while and everyone apparently just waits for him to come back. That’s a thing you have to actually earn—most artists disappear and the world moves on without them. But Sido built something solid enough that it doesn’t stop mattering when he’s gone.

Haven’t heard it yet. It’ll probably be one of those tracks that’s half genius, half bloated. That’s what usually happens when you get that many people on one song.