Challenge is a rarest energy when the artist prefers to extract fuel out of a struggle, and this is what Big Zaddy Hev embodies in the track to create a perfect capture of that fuel on the song Wurrd (Can I Get A). It is not simply a song, it is more of a declaration of purpose: it is scrawny and gritty and as true to itself as it can get.
Right at the start, the DMV influence is impregnated. Hevewae injects that unmistakable Go-Go beat into a trap-soul track backdrop and invents a familiar, yet new sound. It is full of lived experience delivery–you can hear how he goes in putting up the fight behind every line, how he turns constraints into something of his own.
The balancing is the thing that drives themost. The fact that Hev is very vulnerable does not mean the fact that his confidences flourish; he and he together are riding side by side with his faith flowing through the song as steel on the foundation. The track, in its turn, has that spiritual foundation that results in the emphasis on the weight that makes it shine among the formulaic trap anthems. There are some echoes of his influences: the grit of Scarface or the soul of Billie Holiday, although the blend is unmistakably that of Hev.
Its production resembles his indie grind, Ruffcore Ent Group: a touch of the rough, intentionally. The grit plays in his advantage, and his voice and message cut clean and right among the uninterrupted. This is not background music, it is a type of captivating song that gets into your ears and gets developing as long as you listen to it.
Eventually, Wurrd (Can I Get A) seems more of a milestone in the experience of Big Zaddy Hev, a land of paying homage to his past, but one to breakdown the windows further as he does. It is inspirational, not moralizing, soulful, not dulling the point, and most of all, it is real. The reality that remains accompanying the beat postmortem.