Highly acclaimed artist and producer DJ Kridlokk, aka Kristo Laanti, released his highly anticipated new album "Hai" in April. Composed, written and produced entirely by Kridlokk himself, the album has been hailed as a new landmark in Finnish rap.

For four years, Laanti worked on the album largely in his head, going back and forth around the marinas and shorelines of East Helsinki. "Thinking is influenced by the environment and, when thinking alone, it’s easy for your thoughts to get messy and distorted. I eventually found that almost all my ideas included some reflection on loneliness and the thinking and observations that go with it."

All three of the artist's albums have been critically acclaimed, and his 2014 hit Mutsi is considered one of the masterpieces of Finnish rap.

His trademark dark lyrics, examining the world with a suspicious but humorous touch, are also present on the fourth album. “I was thinking about the almost 400-year-old Greenland shark that was spotted off Greenland a few years ago. Here is a creature that swims around for half a century in some icy water, its eyes pitch black and blind, living above all other vertebrates, storing its own urine in its body, which makes its flesh poisonous. Whether the shark is a winner or a loser is impossible to say. But one thing is sure, don't mess around with it!"

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