i realize it's not so much your type of music, but i feel like there's a take in the whole "extreme hardcore rappers who are...
Anonymous asked: i realize it's not so much your type of music, but i feel like there's a take in the whole "extreme hardcore rappers who are also metalheads and weebs" phenomenon that's the big new wave in rap (although the ones who've gotten mainstream from that scene like 69 and xxx aren't as much metalheads or weebs as, say, zillakami)
Yeah I’ve been noticing that from a distance, but I really don’t follow pop music enough anymore to parse it – like, all these Despacito jokes seem to work on the conceit that the song’s unavoidable, but somehow I have
I don’t understand what this is about but I remember the big new wave in rap of ten years ago hanging out on Newgrounds talking about how cool Naruto is, so the only thing I’m surprised by is that it took this long
yeah during the ‘00s the iconic “rowdy black youth” went rapidly from like gangsta to skate punk to mall katana and I think if someone had bothered to write this into our national narrative we’d be in a better place today