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Séhkou’s “Psalms 13:1-2 (How Long) [Notebook’s Lament]” journeys as a highly intimate investigation of longing, faith, and the emotional regions where doubts often reside. Combining soul, hip hop, and poetry, the record creates an intimate environment that sounds less like a performance and more like a private meditation made audible.
Rising from the eternal cry of seeking and waiting of the Bible, the song becomes a potent reflection on hiddenness, uncertainty, and the longing for restoration. Within the broader SOLUS project, the song contains the emotional weight of a journey through lament and intimacy, presenting direction not as a flaw but as an essential component of the human experience.
One of the most striking creative decisions on the record is to personify a notebook as a silent witness. The idea is to make regular pages a place to share prayers, loneliness, confessions, and hopes without judgment. Through this lens, Séhkou catches the moments that usually go unnoticed, the ideas written down in solitude, and the emotions brought along when words seem hard to communicate.
The sound and direction are smokey and introspective, allowing space for the spiritual core of the song to show through without feeling boxed in by typical worship. Instead, it’s a space unto itself, where hip-hop expression meets literary narration meets soulful environment.
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