Emergent Asian-American pop star Star2 spits from the heart. The conscious rapper also isn’t afraid to incorporate more melodic elements to his music to make his style that much more palatable. On ‘Run Away’, documents the crushing social and environmental catastrophes that plague our world and consume us with alarm and despair, including the horrific invasion in Ukraine. He describes his own upbringing as a channel for these global tragedies, shedding light on his experience growing up without a mother or a father in a refugee camp in South East Asia.
He’s praying for injustice to end, for pain and suffering in disadvantaged groups to halt, and for a better tomorrow where the youths don’t have to undergo what he painfully had to be subjected to. It’s a deeply emotive track where the chorus is able to illustrate that emotion scintillatingly well while the verse highlights the ground realities of these issues with verve and direction.