im not saying im surprised by his performance, im surprised that he was able to make a solid effort unlike his atlanta comradesBut without warning was fire and he constantly has the best verses on migos albums?
im not saying im surprised by his performance, im surprised that he was able to make a solid effort unlike his atlanta comradesBut without warning was fire and he constantly has the best verses on migos albums?
Man they echo my thoughts exactly damn, I'll have to subscribe .
A visual album makes a lot of sense for Childish Gambino.
I'm the prince, put your crown on the ground
I don't want it to be
oh, gonna check out, thxFreewave 3 is probably my favorite rap album so far this year.
they're very conveniently vocal proponents of the one China policy while being the only export of Chinese hip-hop after China banned hip-hop. weird coincidence, i know.
Speaking of Tree his album with Vic Spencer is great, I know overcast was looking for stuff to check outlmao @ "i don't know Tree" on that DEHH video. poor Tree, he completely pre-empted Chance by like a decade and is now relegated to features on albums made to spin pottery to. dayum. one of the better rappers to be shuffled off to the side in recent years. i miss him and Exquire
'vocal proponents' is too far, but i'm suspect of any group who's survived a ban on the genre they're performing in while promoting the main social media outlet their government hasn't banned.Are they actually vocal proponents of that? I can't find anything about that googling it.
They don't even really rap anything political which is the more disappointing part.
'vocal proponents' is too far, but i'm suspect of any group who's survived a ban on the genre they're performing in while promoting the main social media outlet their government hasn't banned.
honestly who knows, maybe this has nothing to do with that, and i'm just being a racist idiot based on preconceived notions. i have a deep paranoia when it comes to considering the motivations of art tbh
They're more individualistic than most Chinese artists I've heard, but hip hop to me is about hyper indivualism, and the higher brothers still have that Chinese collectivist mentality going throughout some of their stuff. And a pride of that collectivist culture that isn't in a for the culture sort of way.
huh? that's exactly why you can listen to trap in different languages easily since, as you said yourself, it's mostly nonsensical lyrical. it's only about the vibe. don't tell me you ignored dope French shit like Hamza and Kekra all these years?? :OWhy would I want to listen to trap music I can't understand a lick of when I can listen to nonsensical trap made in my first language
To be fair I can barely understand most of the trap.Why would I want to listen to trap music I can't understand a lick of when I can listen to nonsensical trap made in my first language
That's the joke. SMH
But he's a decent pop artist.
Both of these statements are true. I love the Oscars, but man do they suck. My friends and I bet on who will win every category, and its always fun to see what "cause" the Oscars care most about now. This year, with Best Picture, do Academy voters hate Netflix more than they do racism? Do they give Glenn Close an award for a film no one saw as compared to the sublime Olivia Colman? For documentary short film, do they care about women's health more than they do parallels to modern America? It's a fun game to guess the psychology of old white folks and see what injustice they commit this year.The Oscars are fucking boring. Just a show for old rich people talking about shit no one seen
IIRC, the "ban" was less a ban on hip-hop and more a ban on hip-hop appearing on TV and the web. The art itself isn't banned, but China didn't like a large amount of people listening to disadvantaged people talking about the failures of Chinese society and, by extension, the government. Higher Brothers likely escaped that ban because 1) their music doesn't talk about that at all and 2) they're relatively big in America and (I'd guess) in China too, so you can't fuck with them. It's why they banned the TV show about hip-hop and not the guy that created it, Kris Wu. If I had to guess what they're thinking, the CCP doesn't want true hip-hop, it wants the Post Malones, the G-Eazys, the Rich Brians. People that use hip-hop to talk about anything other than social issues. That is, of course, till the CCP realizes hip-hop espouses positive views on drugs, sex, and anti-familial sentiments and then it'll be banned.'vocal proponents' is too far, but i'm suspect of any group who's survived a ban on the genre they're performing in while promoting the main social media outlet their government hasn't banned.
honestly who knows, maybe this has nothing to do with that, and i'm just being a racist idiot based on preconceived notions. i have a deep paranoia when it comes to considering the motivations of art tbh