In a world getting faster and faster, there is a fear in telling a story that demands stillness. Cuzoh, the emcee and native of Westbury NY, has never been without a purpose but with this single, Cuzoh strikes slowly and deliberately with the style of a street sermon about its patience and heavy. This is his first drop in years, which is not even a comeback, released on July 6, 2025. It is a statement.

The song by Cuzoh is a delicate balance between commentating and sympathizing with the thin line women tend to tread when it comes to money, crime, power, and worthiness in the modern-day and hyper-stimulated society. Withue squirting words and hard-hitting delivery, he does not only create a song, he creates a mirror. It is one synced to the hyper-pressurized duality of living during the digital age, particularly as a Black and Brown woman/girl trying to carve their version of peace within a system that has never allowed them freedom.

The song, “Slow Down” consists of raw wisdom in action. It has a beat that compares to the city streets after midnight and the tone of Cuzoh is pure, sharp: no toning down the ugly, no massaging the hard sell. In his poems you can feel the consequences of women pursuing quick and glamorous living not because they could afford the time to wear makeup or lipstick, nor because they were vain to look like the models in their lives, but because they had to live that way so that they could pay slow bills. He comes not to reprove, to improve. He has a more difficult question on his mind: What were the systems making these options the only possible ones?

Where other people accuse, Cuzoh expands his arms. His pen is a window to the strength of women, with social media aesthetics and algorithm-determined ideals making noise in the background. And in this age of digital posing, it is revolutionary the anal truth he spits, that the sober battle which we waged every day, the battles we won without even a big word, the delight we found out carving against the time all.