Brooklyn’s Niontay, inked to MIKE’s ever-influential 10k Global, has become the face of a particular strand of NYC underground rap. While his first album of 2025, Fadaᐸ3of$, was an emotive and vulnerable exploration of his psyche, Soulja Hate Repellant is its freewheeling cousin: looser, more laidback, and decidedly less heavy. The songs on both projects are blown-out, distorted, and sound like DIY exercises cooked up in a dank Brooklyn basement, but Soulja Hate Repellant boasts a playful array of influences. “100days100nights” takes cues from early 2000s Southern rap, highlighted by firework-like snare drum accents and stabbing synth horns. Elsewhere, “Mark William Lewis Flow” pays homage to the indie songwriter who also had a quite successful 2025. Most triumphant is the Earl Sweatshirt-featuring “Cressidaway/Tpgeek,” which presents a unique blend of their two styles, mashing together the deconstructed rap pioneered by the former Odd Future rapper with the narcotized Auto-Tune flows with which Niontay has become enamored.