{"id":804323,"date":"2020-02-18T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=954562"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:47:23","slug":"chika-wont-stoop-to-industry-games-on-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/chika-wont-stoop-to-industry-games-on-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Chika Won\u2019t Stoop to \u2018Industry Games\u2019 on New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/LeeorWild-CHIKA-5W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rising Alabama MC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chika\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chika\" data-tag=\"chika\">Chika<\/a> unveiled a hard-hitting new track, \u201cIndustry Games,\u201d set to appear on her upcoming EP by the same name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Produced by Sean Momberger, Lido and Ye Ali, \u201cIndustry Games\u201d boasts a clattering mix of drums and bass, balanced by a melody of synth pings that echo with a queasy edge. Chika rides this beat with aplomb, unraveling two verses of exceptionally hard bars before deftly switching into a dramatic sing-song as she rebuffs anyone trying to bounce her from her perch: \u201cI can hear the snakes, they hissing, trying to break my mission\/\u2019Cause I know who I\u2019m about to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chika has yet to announce a release date for <i>Industry Games,<\/i> although the EP is expected to arrive soon. Chika emerged in 2017 with a debut EP of poems, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/chikaoranika\/sets\/full-bloom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><i>Full Bloom\/\/A Poetry<\/i><\/a>, and she\u2019s continued to released both spoken word and music over the past few years. In 2019, Chika released a series of solo singles \u2014 \u201cNo Squares,\u201d \u201cHigh Rises\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Explain It\u201d with Charlie Wilson \u2014 while she also teamed with Jojo on her song \u201cSabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chika-new-song-industry-games-954562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Alabama MC Chika unveiled a hard-hitting new track, \u201cIndustry Games,\u201d set to appear on her upcoming EP by the same name. Produced by Sean Momberger, Lido and Ye Ali, \u201cIndustry Games\u201d boasts a clattering mix of drums and bass, balanced by a melody of synth pings that echo with a queasy edge. Chika rides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 08:32:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}