BK Essentials

“Essa vida é tipo um circo” (“My life is a circus”) spits BK on “Amores, Vícios e Obsessões” from his 2016 album Castelos & Ruínas. It’s a slow, cloudy fever dream of a track whose title sums up the subjects that drive the Rio rapper's lyrics: loves, addictions, obsessions. Whether firing off rhymes in his gravelly voice across descending synth lines and booming bass, like on 2018’s “Correria”, or jazzy keyboard chords as on 2017’s “Deus das Ruas”, exploring his infatuations with the various women and narcotics in his life is what the MC does best.