"It's a bit different than the Irish example"
Yeah, in Ireland it's black and white. England get the FUCK out and stay out. Fuck'a Protestant.
However, in this balkan example, it's a totally grey area because I believe Albania is further away from the US than Ireland.
Ok, time to read on and stop commenting out my ass
Yes. Can it have both of them wielding axes and eating cornocupias? Like true Norsemen? Are Albanians Nordic? Many questions, and a whole night to research :P
And then the Albanian Nationalists reared their ugly heads? 2020, can u get any more trippy? Gonna need like 60 creds of grad level geopolitical science to get thru this pandemic if I chill on this board
Yes. I'm pretty sure NYTimes swore they would never put up a paywall around 2010; they now have a paywall. They don't even allow you to read articles off Google anymore, which they had definitely committed to.
Scharpling's on Patreon, and The Nine Club has subscriptions and donation raffles. I think it's a good thing we all start paying again.
OH COMMME OFF IT THEN!
We need to get them $500k stat - they have a higher overhead than this rag! Seriously though, Q is the 'Gum of the across the pond as we Americans call it. And I may have almost just typed out Mojo.
Now I'm at this paragraph; Q/Mojo = Spin/Rolling Stone; Daily Sun/The Telegraph = Stereogum/Pitchfork. I kid, I kid.
I think the fact that he chose Forbes for this announcement tells us all we need to know. His second choice was probably Fader. Until legacy media like NYTimes give him some shine I... don't think he'll be on any ballots. Poor guy!
I stand corrected.
"he wasn't "just" being like wayne, he was advancing and exploring the style wayne had pioneered;"
totally agree
"he wasn't presenting as a geek"
By the time Stoner came out wasn't he wearing nerd glasses? And isn't rapping like he just ingested helium geeky or at least fun?
after the I Came From Nothing tapes, and wear a badass nose ring starting at least back in 1017 thug?
he was catching on WAY before the rich gang tape (stoner was popping off late '13/early 14);
ok agreed
lifestyle was literally a mainstream top 20 hit.
ok
you dont remember everything.
absolutely true. I also got lost with his output starting around Barter 6, and wasn't pleased when he started slagging off Wayne.
there were pics of him in dresses way before tha, from before he was even famous. he was nude on the cover of barter 6 in early 2015.
guess I'm just getting the time periods mixed up, but yeah 2015 is right around when I'd say the public started picking up on his transgressive presentation. Now I'm not sure what we're arguing about.
there was always an element of gender and sexual transgression in his music and presentation but it certainly wasnt his central pitch.
agreed, and I love Young Thug
Rereading our comments, you're right aaaT. All the hate in lyrics should be acknowledged. Got annoyed by the usual rathole of pFork>here>yelling at a cloud. That's on me.
I'm gonna just stay off these "rappers are homophobic" threads though, there's no good way to approach them.
It's just another good anecdote about our current dystopia. Dude makes a song about luxury. Protesters then blast it at rallies condemning luxury and promoting Equal Rights. Pitchfork then writes an article about how postmodern and righteous using this specific track at said rallies is. Echo chamber etc etc
Isn't it, though? Yeah, he had tons of great mixtapes at first, but they were really just brutal, catchy attempts at being like Wayne. He presented himself as a tall, approachable geek, but also a ruthless gang banger.
It wasn't until his collabs with Rich Homie Quan that he started catching on. But he still wasn't mainstream.
Then I distinctly remember him wearing a dress on an album cover, riding a horse into an album event, dressing androgynous at a late night performance etc. It was right around then I feel like that lame stream celeb culture got on his wang.
Pretty savvy on Thug, but I think it's pretty clear. Between his quote in this article, and what he told Adam22 he said to Lil Nas X (you shouldn't have come out), he came up surrounded by homophobia. Then he got druggy and interested in fashion, but the homophobia is still entrenched.
You know reality bites/ It’s chess not checkers/ Those empty threats only sound good on your records/ If the patois is not followed by blocka/ It’s like marked for death Screwface, without the choppa /Let ‘em rush the stage when you made like Sinatra
Only Pusha T would be able to work "patois" into bars with "Sinatra/screwface/empty threats" -- always on another level.
"and if I knew that was about him I would’ve made changes on our behalf…this rapper shit so gay.” -- Thug is doubling down on his advice to Lil Nas X, I guess? Or, reinforcing gay hate in rap while simultaneously attempting to profit off his androgynous wave? Leave it to Thug.
“What a hell of a year, true colors exposed/ crowns on these clowns, it’s like you colored their nose.” -- Assuming this is @ Drake's blackface shoot. Pusha could never lose the battle to begin with but this must HURT Drake fans.
Johnny Thunders is dead. Richard Hell lives. Scorcese and Jarmusch live. All is ok, but:
RIP Johnny Thunders, Rudolfo Anaya, Carl Reiner, Charlie Daniels, and all the loved ones we've lost so far this year.
LOL! Maybe a DVD compilation with a clip of each former and current staffer. Scott schmoozing with Jared Leto. Amrit interviewing Neon Indian. Corban interviewing Drake. Tom smoking weed with and interviewing Juicy J.
Michael Nelson interviewing some Black Metal band in a dungeon, with Andrew W.K. smirking in a corner. Chris taking pitches from freelance writers, while simultaneously writing reviews (7 cell phones in hand). Just a clip of RJ and _ walking by each other at Coachella without realizing it.
Bonus clips of Doug Moore playing music, and Clare Lobenfeld getting pissed reading our comments.
1. Sung Tongs
2. Merriweather
3. Strawberry Jam
4. Centipede Hz
5. Feels ( would be higher if it wasn't a blatant cash grab using millennial slang RIGHT in the title)
Oh boy. All I can say to this at 6am, is none of this is going to matter in ten years. Ten years - that will be when Justin Bieber gets hired to "revitalize" SoundCloud and Bandcamp. Back up those files, boys and girls.
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