Mojo Flows & Awon: “Soul Flower” Song Review

Can we keep loving something once we begin to question whether we can trust it?

Some love songs reveal their subject slowly. “Soul Flower” tells us early that the woman at the centre of the song is cannabis, then spends the rest of the track deciding how trustworthy that relationship really is.

Released on July 31, 2026, the 2:53 single brings together San Francisco lyricist Mojo Flows and Brooklyn-born, Virginia-based emcee Awon. The song was written and performed by both artists, with a beat produced by Jerm and mixing and mastering by Padre Tóxico.

The song establishes its central idea through an extended romantic metaphor. Cannabis becomes a woman with perfume, purple hair and a hold over the narrator strong enough to make his wife roll her eyes. She inspires creativity, encourages movement and offers what the lyric presents as healing. The repeated hook, “Bliss is what I’m feeling,” makes the relationship sound uncomplicated.

Mojo Flows and Awon carry that metaphor through verses packed with internal rhymes and references that move quickly from Indiana Jones and the Atlanta Hawks to OutKast, Santa and Santana. The humour keeps the writing light, even as suspicion begins to enter the relationship.

That suspicion becomes clearer when the narrator begins questioning stronger strains, artificial alteration and whether the person supplying them can still be trusted. His solution is to walk away and grow his own. What begins as a relaxed love song therefore becomes something closer to a breakup with the commercial side of the relationship.

I appreciate how much work that single metaphor is doing. It carries affection, humour, suspicion and disappointment. The metaphor stays in place while the narrator’s understanding of the relationship changes.

Musically, “Soul Flower” is centred in E minor and runs at approximately 80 BPM. The beat plays alone for about 24 seconds before the first verse, giving the groove time to establish itself. The two rappers then trade compact passages, while the hook first appears around 1:13 and returns near 2:25. The arrangement stays relaxed and loop-based. Most of its movement comes from the changes in voice, rhyme pattern and the return of the hook rather than large instrumental shifts.

On one last listen, what stays with me is how “Soul Flower” celebrates cannabis without presenting the relationship as uncomplicated. Pleasure and distrust occupy the same song. The easy groove disguises that tension, but it never removes it.

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Listen:

• Bandcamp:
https://mojoflows.bandcamp.com/track/soul-flower

• YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnBm1_KWtg

• Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yhFEiJYlJwC0nAgpZvLPe

• Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/soul-flower-single/6791137954

Connect:

• Mojo Flows on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/mojo_flows/

• Mojo Flows on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@mojo_flows

• Awon on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/awon1988/

• Awon on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@AWON