Oct 21, 2022

the idea that Kanye became successful because he doesn't rap that much is insane, he def incorporated more singing from 808s and onward but his commercial peak was 95%+ rapping.

where the h--- do you get these opinions from marsh? this s--- isn't even opinion, it's just factually incorrect

 

Oct 21, 2022

I mean you can cherry pick bad verses from every artist — this is a song from early in his career before he was on most people's radar. I don't this particularly bad or good lyrically, it's kinda just fine. The reason people like a song like this is cuz of the aggressive delivery/frantic beat. It has energy to it and people like energetic music. That being said it's very far from one my favorite youngboy songs, I can take or leave it.

I've said this many times here but I'll say it again: there's lots of different styles of writing. There's value in James Joyce's Ulysses and there's value in Stephen Kings It. King isn't doing anything insane from literary standpoint, but that doesn't make him a bad writer. The same is true for rap — you might prefer one writing style over another, but that doesn't mean the other is bad or doesn't have value.

Regardless if you focus on lyrics alone with music you're leaving out a huge part of the equation in terms of why people listen to music. Youngboy is super versatile in terms of his flow/cadence/delivery/etc and the varied energy he brings to the table. He's extremely good at conveying emotion through his voice, and he has songs that are well written as well. All of that combined I think this is a great depiction of addiction struggles:

[Chorus]
Wanna take it all back to where it started
Life of the party
Right where my heart at
Soon as what I want come in, I say anything goes

[Verse 1]
On the road, cool, ridin' 'round with the top down
Nowhere to go to, decide that I'll just ride 'round
She a drug abuser from a broken heart, oh, oh
Got a bad addiction, I been druggin' hard all month long
I'm in that Wraith, I ain't got nothin' but some residue on me
I'm chasin' a check to the morning
I'm in the trenches with smokers and steppers and loners
Somethin' more than one Schedule II on me
Matter fact, just a convicted felon, I'm keepin' my weapon
I'm pourin' more blood on that money
Owe it all to the youngin who feel that he owe the ones
Put addiction 'fore hunger
I ain't got no peak, leave blood inside the streets
Used to wash my clothes inside the sink, now a young n----- walk on mink
Takin' care of my dawg, made myself a boss, they gon' take one off, he blink
'Fore a n----- had fame, I was sittin' in a cell, young n----- takin' off them links
She gon' play with her nose all night
s---t three doses 'fore the night end
Lipstick bottle full of white, I know
Told her that I like it, I like it
These n----s, they talk too much, can't tell what I did, I did
I always been there for you, you don't even excite me



I don't necessarily expect you to like the song based upon your taste, but I think it's being closed-minded if you can't see any value in it or why someone else would like it. Rap doesn't have to sound like any one specific thing, nor does hip-hop or any other genre. There's tons of music I don't like that I 100% see the value in. I don't care at all how many syllables someone can rhyme if the song doesn't sound good to me, but I understand why people think that's cool.

He's absolutely made songs with misogynistic/homophobic lyrics from the POV of himself. Like...he made a song about murdering his wife, he made a song about dumping his wife's dead body in the lake with his kid.

Regardless, a lot of trap/g--- narratives aren't real and are just for entertainment as well. They're works of fiction. But whether or not the exact stories are true, a lot of them are reflective of a reality many people have lived. I'm not trying to be a d-ck when I say this but frankly I don't really understand why you'd like rap in the first place if you think this way about music like that considering how much of rap has to do with the struggles of poor people, em included.