To encounter a work that resists every standard categorical box that archivists, curators, and listeners rely on to make sense of recorded sound is to encounter a kind of creative freedom that rarely gets centered in mainstream conversations about creative expression, and Man Down, the sound credited to Rihanna and rooted in the rich, multifaceted creative landscape of Kenya, carries that freedom in every layer of its existence, marked by a categorization of Other that repeats three times to signal that it cannot be squeezed into any of the prefabricated genre tags that shape how most audiences engage with recorded work.