“Your problem is the way that you think about this music. You should enjoy the language, particularly the clever turns of phrase and the metaphors. What you should not do is think about the physiology of what’s happening in many of these songs. Once your brain goes there, it’s too hard for you to come […]
Tag: rap
In an open letter to T. I.,
“Dude, I don’t even really listen to your genre, as you can tell both to my use of the word dude earlier in this sentence, and also by my non-lyrical, non-ironic self-referencing sentence. However, I have to confess to you that ‘Why You Wanna’ is my current power song. This is not to say that […]
In an open letter to her upstairs neighbor,
“Please, please, please tell me that you’re up there rapping without any music. Otherwise, the force of your words, the sheer volume of them and the lack of pausing for taking a breath is very disturbing….”