What a glorious conundrum Sydney Bennett is -- a star who burns brighter the deeper she fades into something else. In the early days of Odd Future, Bennett -- then working under the name Syd Tha Kid -- was one of the group's most arresting presences, even though she was mostly staying motionless and parked behind the DJ tables while them boys around her were going ripshit nuts. When Syd started her own project, she didn't rap; she made hazy utopian soul-funk with fellow Odd Future satellite Matt Martians. And that group didn't come into its own until it became a full-on band, something that happened around the time of the 2015 album Ego Death. The director Rick Famuyiwa is rumored to have written Syd a role in the 2015 indie comedy Dope, and she didn't take it, but her absence still hangs like a presence over the movie. Last year, with the Internet on pause, Syd released Fin, a hard-strutting album of slick post-trap R&B, and its strongest singles were collaborations with her Internet bandmates. And now that she's back in the Internet, Syd seems to be consciously relegating herself to role-player status, even after hundreds of millions saw her grinning sheepishly in Drake's "Nice For What" video. It was the right move. If Syd sounded like a star on Fin, she sounds even more like one now.