Identity without permission
B2BAL repeatedly pushes against identities assigned from outside—failure, diagnosis, reputation, conflict and history. Who I Am gathers those threads and puts the final authority back with the person living the story.
After seventeen tracks of labels, memories, arguments and ambition, the narrator takes back the authority to define himself.
B2BAL repeatedly pushes against identities assigned from outside—failure, diagnosis, reputation, conflict and history. Who I Am gathers those threads and puts the final authority back with the person living the story.
The placement is crucial. Before the album turns outward toward Truth Bomb and S.O.S., Mark plants a flag in the one territory he can claim with certainty: his own identity.