Music argues for itself as it plays: This is how you should listen to me. You can tell from how it’s mixed and presented in your speakers how it hopes to be experienced, and MIKE’s Renaissance Man does not want you to play it loud. Splitting production duties with Daryl Johnson, the Bronx rapper muddies the textures of his songs so that the drums feel like drawn breath and small sighs resound like snare claps. MIKE’s own voice is often hard to pick out among the sampled, pitched-down voices moaning in the background. These are deliberate choices, and they lead you to clap your headphones tighter and concentrate. This is music of secrets, internal monologues, intensely specific revelations.
| 1 | –Mike, Joygill Moriah | Negro World | 3:00 |
| 2 | –Mike, Anthony Marshall | Sidewalk Soldier | 2:20 |
| 3 | –Mike, Anthony Marshall | Goliath | 2:45 |
| 4 | –Mike | Decision Tower | 1:34 |
| 5 | –Mike | Time Will Tell | 1:46 |
| 6 | –Mike, Red Lee | Why I'm here? | 1:59 |
| 7 | –Mike, Adé Hakim | resistant man | 2:10 |
| 8 | –Mike, Victoria Bonema | Mother of God | 3:31 |
| 9 | –Mike | INVESTIGATE 311 INVESTIGATE 311 INVESTIGATE 311 | 2:11 |
| 10 | –Mike, Fleece Flies | Peace Offerings | 3:19 |
| 11 | –Mike, King Carter, Camden Malik | For The Nation | 4:16 |
| 12 | –Mike | Rebirth | 4:12 |
