shakahislop
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yeah. i mean that's what tends to reach my ears, like everyone else's i guess. it's also something to do with being in the US where that kind of hiphop is everywhere, all over the place, very much part of everyday life, hear it in the shops etc. i think there's a couple of things going on in terms of my interest - one is that i genuinely like some of it, not loads of it or the sound in general but i do like some of it, and the other is that there's something really interesting to me about it having such a big audience given lyrical themes, affective themes and so on@shakahislop alright so go ahead with your Drake theory then, one thing i've noticed in our talks on rap so far is that maybe barring Dababy much of our discussions on rap have tended to focus on the rappers at the very very top in terms of acclaim,number of streams,hits etc
mr k punk said it best with Drake i think. I mean he's obviously shit, almost everything he's done is shit to me, and he does has this kind of faux wet romantic mode which is hard to deal with. but to me Take Care came along at exactly the right point in my life that i got a huge amount out of it. i don't think it's particularly deliberate but i find it listening to him trying to deal with these internal conflicts, over those hazy kind of beats, trying to do the really vulnerable macho thing that he totally can't pull off, all of that i think makes it this incredible bit of art
i think i've said before that it captures Dubai so incredibly well, no idea if he's ever been there, but it's this thing of luxury shit, driving in cars, air conditioned hotel rooms, references to planes and travel, not totally dissimilar to some of those US cities that you can't really walk around