It Takes Time

"It Takes Time" is an exercise in earned patience — a song that understands healing not as a triumphant arc but as a slow, irregular accumulation of slightly better days. The production is muted and textured: muffled hi-hats, a bass that hums rather than thumps, acoustic elements that give the track an almost morning-light quality. Loco raps and sings in that blurred register he navigates particularly well, where the line between spoken reflection and melody dissolves. He sounds like a man who has arrived at a particular truth only after significant wear, and he delivers it without performing wisdom — just reporting what he found. The song is addressed either to someone going through loss or to a version of himself from an earlier chapter, and that ambiguity is part of its emotional reach. Culturally, it fits into a strand of Korean hip-hop that prioritizes introspective sincerity over flex, closer to the soul of underground Seoul than the polished maximalism of third-gen idol groups. This is music for the long aftermath — breakup weeks turning into breakup months, grief that does not resolve on schedule, the slow dawning realization that the calendar is actually doing its work even when you cannot feel it. Reach for this one early on a weekend morning when you are not quite over something but starting, very slowly, to sense that you might be.