New Push before a 6 hr drive to the beach? Cue up “prepare to be sick of me tiktok meme” for all riding with me.
Denzel, Staples, Kdot, Pusha, Rashad, Tyler, Silk Sonic, J. Cole even though it was a bit disappointing, Keem, Weeknd Bliss of a year to date for releases. Staples overtook Denzel as my favorite, eagerly waiting for Lamar to top it all.
Also, future and Kenny dropping before and after Jack Harlow is awesome. Suffocate that dumb ass album
Saw both at the house of blues in New Orleans early 2000s. Loads of fun. I guess maybe they can’t have New York shows?
Vince Staples: ‘People look at Black people like we’re entertainment’ From the article: “I feel like a lot of the time,” says Staples, “we get this voyeurism: ‘Ah man, it must be so hard,’ or, ‘I can’t imagine growing up where you grew up, experiencing what you did.’ People look at us like we’re entertainment and not people. That’s how we look at rap music. That’s how we look at Black people. “There’s perpetual violence,” he continues. “Our people constantly die. Meanwhile, we’re entertaining beefs and people’s misfortunes … We engage in trauma porn for people obsessed with poverty and violence who don’t know it, don’t digest it or really care about it.” Staples is tired of his music – and rap and hip-hop more broadly – being consumed only as entertainment at a surface level. It’s the industry – audiences and listeners alike – he argues, who giddily perpetuate the glamorisation and glorification of violence.“The truth is, someone can like my music,” Staples says, “but if I did one of these things that’s talked about in music for survival I would be shunned by the world.” Audiences will happily sing along, he says, until confronted with the reality. “But it happens every day,” he says. “We just don’t care about people like me and where I come from – we just pretend to.”
I need a Clipse return album so bad. Fantastic album and a fantastic year for hip hop so far after a shit 2021
This album is outstanding but it has two too many songs. The Cudi/Kanye song and the Uzi/DT song keep this album from being perfect