As the title suggests, Kanye was always one of my problematic faves but I think he's kinda became annoyingly problematic and comically evil to the point that he's lost me. I still listen to his old stuff though. I often don't realise how much I listen to it still until I see my last.fm stats.
It's kind of undeniable that he's been one of the most influential people in hip-hop and wider pop culture for decades now, so it hurts more that he's gone so far down the deep end.
One of these days I'll make my idea for a Kanye Broadway musical a reality. Trust me!
Jan 15, 2025
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Ever since the Kendrick / Drake beef, I’ve found it hard to listen to a lot of recent Drake music. It feels like Drake as an artist is split into two distinct phases that is pre MEGA star and post MEGA star, and the post phase for me (Views, Scorpion, FATD, etc) has been pretty stained by the beef and that music just doesn’t feel like it’s aged gracefully. There is one outlier in this all for me and it’s Honestly Nevermind (excl Jimmy Cooks)
Where the Kendrick beef highlighted a lot of the moments in Drake’s music that kind of make me cringe or at the least roll my eyes, this album still feels fresh and also separate from the narrative of Drake as this MEGA star with no friends in the industry sending disses and Serena Williams and name dropping people ever other bar. There’s something about the vagueness of the writing on this album that feels so different for Drake.
If you haven’t given this a proper chance, I really recommend it. It’s easy to listen to and a total breath of fresh air amidst a pretty monotonous string of music.
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for anyone not following hiphop, there is some entertaining and intense back and forth going down between drake and kendrick lamar. brief history:
- drake features j cole on a verse in last year’s First Person Shooter with the following line:
Love when they argue the hardest MC
Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?
We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali
- in March, kendrick responds with a verse in future and metro boomin’s Like That:
Motherfuck the big three, n****, it's just big me
- j cole drops a transphobic response track, apologizes for it, and deletes it from streaming, cementing his status as a goofy and a loser
- drake replies with Push Ups, mainly trashing kendrick’s comparatively weak sales numbers, and saying he caters to too many white pop artists:
Maroon 5 need a verse, you better make it witty
Then we need a verse for the Swifties
- drake drops a second diss track called Taylor Made Freestyle which features "AI" voice clones of tupac and snoop dogg; tupac’s family compelled drake to take this song down, allegedly at kendrick’s behest
- kendrick replies with euphoria, absolutely tearing into drake from a multitude of angles. vulture has a breakdown of some of the sharpest bars:
That's ho shit, I got a son to raise, but I can see you don't know nothin' 'bout that
- kendrick drops another diss track back to back, putting out 6:16 in LA on instagram. kendrick enlists taylor swift collaborator jack antonoff for production and drops bars implying that drake entourage is filled with backstabbers:
Have you ever thought that OVO was working for me?
Fake bully, I hate bullies
You must be a terrible person
Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it
- drake gives a solid return shot with Family Matters, making some serious claims about kendrick’s personal life and beliefs, claiming he is violent with his wife, and going so far as to claim one of kendrick’s children is the illegitimate offspring of his business partner:
I heard that one of 'em little kids might be Dave Free
- within an hour of Family Matters, kendrick has already dropped Meet the Grahams. kendrick has taken the glove off, so to speak, and takes shots at every aspect of drake’s image, including a reference to an ozempic prescription pictured on the album art, allegedly really belonging to drake (here addressing drake’s son):
Don't cut them corners like your daddy did, fuck what Ozempic did
Don't pay to play with them Brazilians, get a gym membership
- not resting on his laurels, kendrick goes back to back AGAIN by releasing Not Like Us before drake has a chance to respond. dropping any pretense or vagary, kendrick spends a significant amount of time directly accusing drake of pedophilia:
Say, Drake, I hear you like 'em young
You better not ever go to cell block one
this doesn’t really cover all of the barbs thrown or people who have been potentially roped in by stray lyrics, so i recommend hitting the links and listening through if you haven’t yet.
May 5, 2024
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“London I know how you feel, I lost my queen too”
Jan 25, 2024
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I took this pic of my friend while we were out and about in the city. I can't say I hung out with friends much when I was still in high school so I really love that I've built myself up more as a sociable person :)
Jan 15, 2025
Kneecap was by far my favourite. Just an absolutely blistering first feature that is extremely fun starring the Irish language hip-hop group of the same name. Knew nothing about them going in, but it was electric watching it in the cinema even without much of an audience. The Irish language is so cool.
In terms of "best"? I absolutely adore The Substance.
Jan 15, 2025
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I work as a store greeter for a very popular department store here in Australia (one that used to have a US presence but is notably now dead there)
I get it. It's boring. It's tiring! It can be shockingly stressful!
You will meet bad, annoying, unreasonable, weird, and generally unsavoury people.
I just got off a day of casual retail work and I know by the end of the week I'll be making pennies compared to what I made at my previous part-time job (which I quit because I was having a bad time but that's a story for another day).
But when you form even the slightest bit of connection with people? Have a pleasant conversation about something mundane? Tell them you like their graphic tee? I love it! It's cool! Having a laugh with folks, exchanging smiles, getting to see how different people really are up close and personal... There's something about it I truly love.
Maybe I'm sipping the corporate Kool-Aid, maybe not. But I just love to talk to people.
Jan 15, 2025