Richmond, VA’s $ilkMoney releases his new album Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and the Fruits No Longer Bear? via Lex Records. Across 15 tracks co-produced by $ilk himself and frequent collaborator Kahlil Blu, with contributions from Mutant Academy producer Sycho Sid, $ilk explores the reality that giving oneself to something isn’t always reciprocal.
Speaking about the album’s thematic inspiration, $ilk says, “Whether you give your all to your children or your passion or your dreams or to a relationship or whatever it is, we just gotta realize that a lot of what we give ourselves to don’t really owe us anything to begin with.”
The album is a potent artifact of $ilkMoney’s irreverent humor and his refusal to conform, putting together a record that intertwines his signature intensity and debauchery with insightful parables about his own relationship to the industry and what he’s given to his craft. In typical $ilk fashion, every word, line and song title is delivered with intent, whether up front and in your face, or hidden just under the surface. The album rewards repeat listens to unpack some of the metaphors he’s embedded into the album, like a criticism of the rise of digital minstrelsy and negative depictions of Black people in the media, a targeted takedown of the wealthy elite class and complicit rap stars, and even turning his gaze inward to interrogate his own relationship to rap as a career.
$ilkMoney first emerged onto the scene as a teenage rap phenom with unforgettable tracks like “P.Sherman (PS42WW$)” and “My Potna Dem”. In the time since, he’s solidified a sound that’s singularly intense, debaucherous and impeccably precise with a collection of critically acclaimed projects including his most recent 2022 full-length I Don’t Give a F**k About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don’t Feel Like It Anymore. The rapper has made a few select guest appearances since his last full length, on Noname’s Sundial alongside billy woods, on Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin’s beloved FlySiifu’s and most recently appearing on two tracks on Fly Anakin’s (The) Forever Dream.
$ilkMoney | Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and the Fruits No Longer Bear?
July 18, 2025 | Lex Records
1. PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSPOPIC(NOBODY)SILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
2. WELL I’LL BE A MONKEY’S UNCLE
3. “OOPS HONEY I SHRUNK MYSELF WITH THE HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS RAY MACHINE AND CRAWLED INTO YOUR DICKHOLE BY ACCIDENT :O”
4. A WHALE IS ONLY AS BLUE AS YOU SAY IT IS, SO, IT’S 2
5. WE SNUCK THE BISCUIT IN THE TUNNEL AND DIN EEN NEED TO
6. PROLLY WOULDN’T BE HERE IF WE WOULDA BEEN KILLED THAT N*GGA KING BACH
7. BIG FAT JELLY DA CHILI DAAAWG LUVAH LUVAH
8. FIRST I GIVE UP, THEN I GIVE IN, THEN I GIVE ALL
9. I’VE BEEN DOING THIS THING WRONG THE WHOLE TIME, THAT’S CRAZY, HOLUP
10. FUUUCK, BABY, YOU’RE SO SEXY WHEN YOU’RE TERRIFIED
11. THERE ARE HILLS AND MOUNTAINS BETWEEN US, ALWAYS SOMETHING TO GET OVER
12. THE $400 CHEESEBURGER FROM THE WINDOW SHOPPER VIDEO WAS JUST A BIG MAC -_____-
13. THE JURY DUTY SEAFOOD BOIL BAG FROM THE LYFE JENNINGS PAPERWORK PARTY
14. NEVER TRUST A BITCH THA- *EXPLODES*
15. UNNERVING PRESENCE OF THE BLACK HAND
