Kirk Knight has been in the hip hop periphery since he spit a guest verse on Joey Bada$$'s 2012 breakout mixtape 1999, and has long been considered Pro Era's next up. After dropping up three fire tracks in the last couple, months. he now shares his debut project Late Knight Special.
Below is Kirk's moving and awesome note he wrote when the NPR stream dropped. The Spotify stream is now available, listen and watch his episode of On The Come Up.
"I never felt so proud of anything in my whole entire life, produced all by me, written by me (with exception to the ft on the project). Sleeping on coachs, almost giving up, depressed low, FUCK. UMM ALL THE COUNTLESS HOURS, ALL THE PEOPLE WHO I LOST THAT COULDNT SEE THIS MOMENT WITH ME, to get to this elevated high. Im ready world are u? LKS NOW AVAILABLE FOR STREAM ON@NPRMUSIC FUCK I COULD CRY RIGHT NOW. F.W.M!!!! MY WHOLE WORLDS BEEN CHANGING BUT AFTER TODAY I HAVE NO EXPECTATION WHATEVER HAPPEN, HAPPENED CUHZ I EARNED IT OMFGGGGGG UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LKSSSSS ( PS I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THE WHOLE ALBUM IS IN ANALOG, MY FIRST ANYTHING THIS WAS THE BIGGEST RISK IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL MUSIC, WANTED TO LET YOU FEEL THE ESSENCE OF ME) AND IM ONLY 19 FUCKKKKK WITH ME"
1. Start Running
2. Heave Is For Real
3. Brokeland
4. 5 Minutes f. Joey Bada$$
5. Knight Time
6. One Knight f. The Mind
7. Scorpio
8. Down
9. I Know f. Mick Jenkins
10. Dead Friends f. NoNameGypsy & Thundercat
11. The Future f. The Mind
12. All For Nothing