Being a great writer means, well, how the fuck should I know? I’m just so-so. But I THINK it means a lot of things. A lot of similar attributes are universally attached to all great writers, with one of them being vulnerability. Entertainingly vulnerable is a chore. A writer like Kendrick Lamar has the gift of letting us, the stranger; and us, his reader, into his space while keeping...
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1.) Kendrick, like me, is an active member of the “N***as who can still keep a head full of a hair and a reasonable hairline intact well into their 30’s” Club. 2.) “There will never be a music video broken down more than Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’” Black Twitter: Hold my Casamigos 3.) That quote, “I am. All of us.” kind of left me stomped. What is Kendrick...
Big K.R.I.T. Conceptualizes The Idea Of Love On “Digital Roses Don’t Die” – Album Interpretation
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Mississippi native Justin Scott p.k.a Big K.R.I.T. released his latest project Digital Roses Don’t Die last week on February 17, 2022.
The fifth full-length album in his discography sees K.R.I.T. tapping into some unexpected creative influences to produce an album that was step outside of what some may consider his usual box.
DRDD is a soulful album that is essentially a breakdown of what the experience of being in...
I’m old. And as life passes me by, this world becomes even more confusing. And nothing, currently, is more confusing than “Pushing P.” What does it mean? Why is this even popular? What are Future, Gunna and Young Thug even talking about? Future is older than me btw, and he gets it, so why can’t I? I seek the answers. I need the answers. Because if I don’t get...
Jay-Z: You chose dinner with me over 500k? Me: Yep! Jay-Z: Why? Me: Don’t mean why not? Jay-Z: No, I mean why. Me: I mean, don’t you have the keys to life? I’m trying to get this paper! Jay-Z: But “getting to the paper” would’ve been choosing the 500k. Me: Huh? Jay-Z: Never mind. What you mean by the keys to life? Me: Yeah, you know, like, MAJOR keys!...
