Kojo Funds closes out with “Problems,” and after the warmth of “With You,” this one pulls back toward something more guarded.
Problems, blunt enough as a title, no dressing it up as anything lighter than what it is. After three singles moving through doubt, confidence, then closeness, this feels like a return to something unresolved. Kojo Funds isn’t pretending everything stayed settled after “With You.”
Beat turns moodier here, bassline heavier under sparser percussion than the warmth of his last single carried. Nothing bright creeping into the arrangement anywhere. Feels built to match whatever tension’s actually driving the title, closer to “How Many” in weight than the ease of “With You.”
Kojo Funds sings with real strain in his voice throughout, less settled than the last two singles, more like something’s slipped since then. Doesn’t oversell the frustration though, keeps it controlled even at the heavier moments. That restraint gives “Problems” its actual pull.
Lyrics circle whatever’s gone wrong without spelling out every specific, repeating the tension in different shades rather than resolving it outright. Doesn’t offer a clean fix by the end either. Just sits in that discomfort, same as “How Many” did before things settled.
“Problems” complicates the arc this four-song run seemed to be building toward, doubt resolving into confidence and closeness only to loop back around. Real feeling doesn’t move in one clean direction, and Kojo Funds lets this one stay honestly unresolved.
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