OOFIE is the second studio record from New York rapper Wiki. His first release since leaving his old label, OOFIE is a return to the raw basics of Wiki’s days spent in the New York underground with tight, diaristic raps and grimy, muddy boom-bap production. Reflective and stressed-out, OOFIE is Wiki’s quarter-life crisis, a weary portrait of an artist looking around and taking stock of his life so far, contending with his own arrested development and conflicted nostalgia, reconciling with his position in the industry, lamenting a city forever changed and a youth lost to him. Wiki’s vision of New York is full of grit and devoid of glamour, rallying against gentrification, sanitisation and the impulse to romanticise the city’s past at the expense of its future as he artfully explores the minute details that make his hometown unique. Trading party-raps and nights of drunken debauchery for introspection and nights in, the one-time gap-toothed street rat emerges on his second LP with a confidence which is less bombastic, but more measured and mature. On OOFIE, Wiki perfects a form of personal, insular rap music that never disappears into the ether or shuts the rest of the world out.