Audio: The Invisible Enigma "ALFT" (Str8 Buttah)

Audio: The Invisible Enigma "ALFT" (Str8 Buttah)


Nigerian collective Str8 Buttah presents the 4th and final single "ALFT" off Enigma's Desultory. Engineered with Nicolay's classic beat off City Lights Vol. 1.5, this single has pun written all over it, enter "Luke Fly Talker." An appropriate follow up to the last future inspired single, "Austere Guinevere (Lady Killer)." Master Yoda would be proud ...May the Naija force be with you.

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