YHWH Nailgun is not a rapper. Those abbreviated letters don’t pledge allegiance to any hip-hop collective. “YHWH” is pronounced “Yahweh,” as in God in the Hebrew Bible, and YHWH Nailgun are four guys.

It’s a tale as old as Sugarhill Gang, and, though he’s nowhere near as entitled as those vague rapper composites I just listed, Saba continues the tradition on his new track “Acts 1.5,” where he ...