Seriously. The rule is to have at least one empty stall in between, or is that just for urinals?

03 Greedo? I hate it when mp3s are poorly tagged…

He looks like somebody sewed his face onto Mark McGrath’s head.

“this isn’t about my personal feelings, cause I dont’t have much of them…” she’s a legend

Top 10 for TayTay Shade. Bottom 5 for a Madonna bash.

#brand is fucking STRONG this week.

For Kim, Five Minutes Ago

You mean, it’s possible to apologize for something you’ve done wrong and have someone else forgive you, and learn and grow and love and sing and have nice things again?

So I listened to the new Roc Marciano album today. Enjoyed his album from last year and was getting the same enjoyment out of this one – cool, subdued beats that a tough guy raps icily over. Dunno if it was worth $30, but definitely $10 at least?

Then track 5 comes in and he drops the Gay Slur. This could just be a me-thing – I definitely didn’t see it mentioned in the write-up on this site – but, I dunno, does that not take anyone else out of the music, cause it to stop being fun? The same thing happened to me last year with Jay-Z’s anti-semitic bars on 4:44, and the Asian slur Migos dropped on Culture (both similarly under-discussed, IMO).

And sure, you could argue that it’s just a boneheaded misuse of language, that he’s not actually talking about gay people. I think the same arguments got made to excuse some of yr fav rap-albums-of-the-last-few-years DS2 and Acid Rap (when Future and CTR’s use of the term isn’t just being ignored altogether). But then I looked into it, and dude has a history:

This Grammy shit is perverted— Roc marci (@rocmarci) January 27, 2014

Fag rituals— Roc marci (@rocmarci) January 27, 2014

All of this was in response to Macklemore’s performance of his cornball/up-the-middle “Same Love” song at the 2014 Grammys, where Queen Latifah married same-sex people on stage. So, whether or not he’s actually talking about gay people in his songs, Roc Marciano doesn’t seem to like them much, and uses a really loaded word to refer to them. He did it then, and he probably just did it on his new album.

I dunno, man. As music culture and music journalism have trended more towards a social justice bent – and to boot, has foregrounded rap as the most important genre to watch – it’s weird that y’all overlook stuff like this. Would be cool if people got as mad about this as they do when some young rapper says he thinks the 90s are overrated. Maybe people would have if someone more outwardly antagonistic like Ariel Pink or Mark Kozelek had said it instead. But IMO the current silence is deafening.

Last year when Migos were blowing up, I asked a friend (who, it should be noted, is gay) if he’d heard their music. He responded by asking me why he would listen to music by people who hate him. And that stuck with me – why would I continue listening to music by people who hate my friend, especially when there’s so much else out there?

Between deflowering the first base path of earnest-looking Oklahomans and indirectly killing nuns, Katy Perry is having a hell of a week.

Yes, it was a bad joke. Now we must burn them at the stake. No forgiveness is allowed ever!

Yikes at your usage of the word “Branded.” I know Brand is his last name, but that word has some pretty awful connotations and implications of ownership

you only listen to mount eerie because one time, probably a few years back, pitchfork gave them a good review, and that high number tickled your animal brain into thinking it was good. you, and the rest commentariat constantly disrespect black art, making these kinds of fuckshit statements with absolute certainty, despite being well-aware you have no idea what you’re talking about. go to rym or fucking mu/ if you want indie-rock circle jerk nonsense.

So you are a human male with sexual drive. Big deal. Girls like you and you can get tons of chicks, they get all wet when you talk to them? enjoy it you lucky bastard. That is ok as long as you are not a monster and havent harrassed nor hurt anyone (have you???!!!). just release the damn thing.

They are an overwhelmingly shitty band.

Basic white hipsters rejoice.

Stereogum’s comment section is great because there always seems to be a voice of reason. Today that voice is ButtHash.