Breathing While Black: MonoNeon on His Newest Music

But while the five-string bass wunderkind, who played with Prince in his final years, is more widely known as a member of Ghost-Note or for YouTube jams interpolating bass notes over dialogue by an “angry grandpa” or Cardi B, he has touched on politics before — as early as 2016’s “Ain’t Nothing United About America.” Now this newest single, released on June 1st, weaves an atypically minimalist soundscape to drive home an even more immediate political message.