I sincerely apologize to you and I will try my best to restrain myself. I am really seeking for guidance and I genuinely appreciate your patience and bravery. Please, don't give up on me.
Poor little Lena: she feels uncomfortable. Art is not Ikea, darling. It was not made to make you feel comfy, but to make you think and question things that you thought you had all the safe answers for.
I'm really having a ball with the turmoil caused by his video. It's amazing the amount of people that are using it as a medium to express how morally superior they are to those who actually think that this is some serious and slow-digesting food for thought.
Once again downvoting forces me to react in a humble matter. I'm sorry if I offended anybody, the truth is that in the heat of the discussion I tend to write silly things. What I mean is that, obviously, the remaining 25% are also welcome to suck my dick.
But you should, bloc. Runaway is one of the most important music videos of the last twenty years and it's breathtakingly beautiful. Plus, he and Spike Jonze are the co-creators of what is my favourite hip hop video of all time ("Flashing Lights"). I don't know about his shoes or clothes, they look pretty awful to me, but hey, haute couture is really not my thing.
I would say that 75% of the commenters of this post need to seriously suck my dick with passion and an amount of gluttony that can somehow wash away from my mind their enormous ignorance. Bitches.
One thing that has been overlooked is to whom the song is directed to - its in the opening bar actually ("To all my Southside nights that know me best"). As if knowing him intimally is a condition to decode his lyrics. I've been thinking about that a lot latelly.
Definitely ballsy and absolutely unaligned. It's almost a protest video and, after watching it, it made me realize how the song can also be interpreted as a critic of showbiz and of our hyper-mediated society. The long minutes of silence, forcing us to watch how these conflicted personalities sleep in peace after coitus are not only very Death Grippish (an obvious influence in this video), but also seem to suggest that there might be a huge gulf between mediated likelihood and truth. Fascinating stuff.
"If Fetty Wap continues on this trajectory — going from making goofy crossover-pop to doing nothing but hard, grimy street records — he will become maybe the first prominent rapper ever to Benjamin Button the usual, expected career arc. "
Tom, you beautiful music writer.
I've been struggling with the album, but my effort also has been paying off tremendously. In the beginning I really missed the krazy flow of his debut, those songs flowed so smoothly both narratively and musically. The thing that really started to make me click is that this Still Brazy showcases his tremendous ability and versatility as an MC. Though DJ Mustard is no longer the beatmaker in the new record, YG definitely learned how to let a lot of sonic space between his rapping and the beats.
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