Pink Siifu shapes his wild and inventive raps with help from his friends

Alabama-born rapper Pink Siifu takes a loose, fluid approach to lots of things—including his musical style and the general idea of authorship. In January he dropped the album Black’!Antique , and it’s sometimes frenetic, sometimes lackadaisically smooth; it’s also nominally a solo project, but its wild, anything-goes energy arises directly from a fascinating array of more than two dozen cowriters and collaborators. “Facecard’!,” for example, lists five contributors, and its jittery percussion and dreamy synths make it sound like the work of the credited producers, Detroit ghettotech group HiTech. Black’!Antique is Siifu’s fourth studio album, and though it’s technically his first since 2021’s Gumbo’! , he’s kept busy recording and releasing material with his friends, including two gr