Chika’s Introspective ‘Float’ Says Goodbye To Simpler Times And Lost Loves

One of my faves, Alabama rapper Chika, quietly made her return a few weeks ago with a noodley, lighthearted song called “Stimming.” Written about “scovering parts of my neurodivergence as an adult and wishing i could tell younger me that it would all make sense eventually,” according to her Twitter, the track marked a decided turn for the former Grammy nominee from the studied precision of prior work to a more free-form flow state. She continues down that looser, more autobiographical road with her latest, “Float.” This one is written, fittingly enough, as almost an open letter to old loved o