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Fireboy DML has been getting just enough press in the west that it feels close to cheating to list him, but maybe still not enough just yet:

You’re probably thinking of Nollywood, but honestly I don’t know if there’s a ton of crossover. It does feel like most of the video production might owe more to Youtube after-effects tutorials than the Nigerian film industry, but maybe I’m wrong.

It’s surprising to me that M.I hasn’t made a bigger impact globally. Maybe his style is slightly too derivative, you can really see the Kanye influence on his flow. Lots of good albums but let’s get some singles:

some truly world-class stuff coming out these last few years. SDC’s Clone Wars 4 was probably my album of the year for 2019, really good stuff:

I didn’t see the thread, but the answer is yes. Migos is great, although I tend to not be a fan of most of what’s come out of Atlanta the last couple years. Mid-10s chopped and screwed stuff is an absolute mood, although I’ve been listening to less because it doesn’t fit the quarantine mood...

gotta put on wiley every AM to distract yourself from that you’re eating boiled peas again

if he’s gonna own us on the other stuff i’m going for the jugular (talking shit about “british cuisine”)

probably deserves a thread. I know @Corpsey is a fan. Thinking about the transcendental appeal here, the figure of Carly as a non-person more than a stand-in—if you look at pictures of her from between her different eras, you'll notice that she doesn't even look like the same person. We don't...

I think these are flawed ways of talking about the response a work elicits, and both are trying to reach for something grander. There is in any person a set of associations that are essentially arbitrary—one of the clearest examples of which is the feeling you get when you put on an old...

It's the difference between handing a letter to your friend, and asking the post office to give it to him. The latter usually works well, unless perhaps you live in a country where the post office opens up letters and makes some changes. You can say "I don't live in a country like that at the...

i don't even have the right calibration to troll these folks well, the best I could do is obvious bait: "wiley bad", "amapiano better than uk house", "NORAVE was the most underrated album of 2008" (true but so hard to find a copy that nobody can argue against it). I could go on a pro-zoomer kick...

i've started to feel like online is a sort of purgatory, a doomed/cursed place where people exorcise themselves of libidinal energy when they feel trapped in the other parts of their lives i remember reading a quite depressing thread on here where people talked about how they were functioning...

this is obviously true; elon musk, kanye, the key competitive advantage is mania

the old phrase about big data is that it's like college freshmen having sex—everyone says they're doing it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, very few people are doing it. If it worked, it would be done very quietly and under the cover of secrecy; if you're hearing about it, it's going...

I was thinking about this meme today—doomers and femboys definitely have mainstream/middlebrow crossover appeal. White nationalism and harassing women have always enjoyed a modicum of popular support too, but of course not in the same ways. I guess the question is, what is the Gen-Z culture...

you can tell he's peeked inside Dewey because everyone starts speaking like this immediately after. nearly incomprehensible, talking about consolidation of energy and "perturbations", relating everyday experience to the actions of the living creature in its environment.

What I mean is that he solved (an awful lot of) the mystery of what art is, and how it functions in humans, in the general case rather than for specific mediums—one of those things that perhaps should have happened earlier, but I don't think it ever did. You have many people in history trying to...

its true

I think the big part is that it just doesn't cover what's in the other 360 pages very much at all–processes by which art is made, the experience of perception, how one can have an experiences of understanding or working with an idea, and how works of art can function by inducing that, issues...

here's my very partial gloss: https://gravitylobby.club/dewey.html much of the rest of the book is about the mappings and associations created from human needs to abstract qualities, or how artists translate experiences into works. If you read just one thing, make it chapters 1 and 3.