When I said I don't usually get into instrumental music I made a point of specifying "instrumental rap music" because I f**king love instrumental music. I'm not familiar with much of black milk's discography other than the track "I guess" which is a goddamn banger. I don't want my ignorance to sound like a reflection on his music because that wouldn't make any sense, like I said, I've never really checked for his music. Truthfully I avoided it after reading things about him that made it seem like he was pretty heavily on that dilla sh*t. This is nothing like that dilla sh*t, though I did read/hear that dilla was a huge fan of brasilian music, which would have probably been our conversational common ground. I love this sh*t. It reminds me of being a little dirty faced mulatto kid in neon patterned shorts running around the slums of sao paulo with my cousins eating corn starch out of tins like f**king post apocalyptic orphans. That was around the same time my uncle gave me a tambourine, which after his death from cancer I've restructured in my personal mythology as him recognizing musical genius in a six year old. Looking back objectively though, it was probably because of the michael jackson curls I was rocking. There's a strange green tint to all my memories from that time. I wonder if that's indicative of something. Or was it just the heat from the jungle mixed with heat from all the tightly crowded bodies mixed with the heat from the pollution mixed with lesions in my brain. Who knows?

I don't usually get into instrumental rap music or whatever this is right here. I think it might come down to me being a goddamn rapper and inevitably either trying out flows on it or deciding I wouldn't even rap on it, in which case get it out of here. This sh*t is doope though. Nice little melody and all that. I don't really know who drewsthatdude is and I really don't know what fortune does. Please don't think that I'm proud of not doing my journalistic due diligence. I'm just keeping it real for you.

Maaan boogie's doing it. If you haven't heard the original "bitter raps" then what can I tell you, I either forgot to link to it when I posted that boogie freestyle or you just didn't click on it. Shame on one of us. He's getting dangerously close to matching the heights that he hit with"bitter raps", it's making me think he's a naturally cynical kind of motherf**ker and needs to stop fighting it. Or maybe all his tracks are as dope as this and I'm the cynical one? Let me stop before I start working myself up over here.

* Editor's note: He says"I'd be fucking your plans up if I told you to man up" hahahahahaha

I don't know anything about this dude but I like the sh*t he's talking. There's a part where he says that he doesn't want to be like the average post modern film maker who just decides on a reference and faithfully recreates it. I'm totally with that right there. If I recall correctly he was being film specific but that sh*t happens in hella mediums. You know, when you're a fan of sci-fi you really kind of have to resign yourself to having no standards when it comes to production value, or acting, or storylines, or dialogue. There's maybe a ten percent chance that you pick up a sci-fi film and it's good and that's being generous for hovsake.

This motherf**ker's name is lil yachty and this is the album cover. That alone is enough. Or rather, that would be enough but the song's f**king wild too. I looked him up and he was in the last yeezy fashion show or something? I didn't read the articles.

* Do you think that when young thug says "make her come back like hadouken" that what he's actually thinking of is when scorpion in mortal kombat screams "come here!" and shoots the spear that pulls you closer? I do.

Oh this is some ill sh*t right here. Rap sh*t rap sh*t. This dude's in the same crew as westside gunn which is hella apparent from the jump. You should be made aware that he f**king takes off on that second verse. My lady would probably hate this.

I'm with this. I'm so with this. I'd take this to prom. I'd put this track through college. I'd accept it if this song wanted an open relationship. Sh*******t,  I'd hold it down while it did a 8 year bid. All that sh*t. In case you don't notice on your own, that's a motherf**king bass guitar she's playing in this b*tch. This was one of those I had to play back like eight times when I first heard it. When the distortion kicks in? good lord, forget about it, she had me at "we're all dying".

I thought it was understood that horace had to wear his goggles at all times. How do we know that's not harvey?

As rosenberg even mentions in the interview, horace unfortunately is one of those people who played way too close to greatness and as you can probably guess, they spend this entire thing talking about michael jordan. Man I f**king hated michael jordan. The first basketball game I ever watched was between chicago and new york. It seemed like the whole world was rooting for chicago so instinctively I went with new york. I was so loyal to my knicks fandom that after such a protracted period of heart break, I had to stop watching basketball altogether. But during those years when I was still stanning for john starks/allan houston, one thing remained a constant, michael jordan was such a piece of sh*t. Watching the knicks go up against him was like getting jumped in a gang or some sh*t. You prayed for an alternative but you knew what was going to happen. It's as if he just willed it, like he controlled the energy in the arena. Sometimes I think it was my first introduction to nihilism. There really seemed to be no point. No team was safe. Now that I think about it in hindsight though, I kind of get it. What was the point of being a fan of anyone other than chicago? we all knew who was winning in the end. Some of us hoped otherwise but in our prematurely embittered hearts we knew.

All that to say, from what I've seen this season, steph curry is probably the goat.

Dooope. I saw somewhere that they call their sh*t "sob rock" hahaha, I get it though. Something about this really reminds me of blockbuster video for whatever reason. Blockbuster video and wood paneled basements. Both with "cheers" playing wordlessly in the background. Oh god never mind, that might be too depressing for me. Seems like this nineties alternative vibe is making a real comeback. I wasn't anywhere near riding that wave the first time it came around. You couldn't really avoid it completely but I certainly wasn't buying it. Except this one veruca salt lp, they had some jams.

Holler at this sh*t right here. You're going to need a favorite uk emcee, might as well start looking around.

Oh man, this is my type of sh*t right here. When given the option I usually end up throwing something like this on and reveling in the orgasmic feeling of staying on the line between smiling and weeping. You should try it, it's fun AND depressing. I couldn't decide if I liked this live version better, but I might. If you watch it, pay attention to that mic combination they got going on. I don't know the mics or anything but you can tell by the shapes that whoever set it up knows what's up. This song was also in that nigerian movie I saw, which was both kind of surprising and also a reminder that I didn't know sh*t about the state of nigerian film.

*edit from 2025 - that live version is fucking amazing. i definitely prefer it.

I like this interview for it's historical significance, for what I imagine will ultimately become it's archaelogical importance. This is the day rappers, me included, finally stood up to tyrannical radio dj's. The day we finally started the climb to overthrow the oppression of their f**king played out instrumental choices. The instrumentals these motherf**kers throw on during freestyle segments are the same instrumentals you would have heard ten years ago. Quite often it's the same instrumentals you would have heard almost twenty years ago. The crazy part of it is that you'll never convince them that that sh*t is crazy.

I'm going to officially start checking for stizz regularly, this motherf**ker is nice. I'm also looking forward to getting a new perspective on boston. If you're from around here (montreal) you know what the average boston dude interaction is like. If you're not from around here, allow me to explain that sh*t. Out here the drinking age is eighteen, so every weekend certain parts our city are swarmed with obnoxiously wasted bostonian white guys with polo shirts and military-style haircuts failing to pick up women and deciding that fighting in the streets is almost as good. It's not homie, it's not! In fact, now that I think about it, and also for the sake of narrative closure, I've seen quite a few of them get their bells rung.

I watched this nigerian movie that reminded me about this sh*t. Man I love this song. Listen to the swag on the way they hit the "down low". A friend of mine who used to play guitar with "cannonhead" put me on to this during a tour many moons ago. And since it had already been like 30 years in between it's release and when I first heard it, it unsurprisingly still holds the f**k up.

Saw everybody going crazy about this dude awhile back when he performed with chance the rapper on some late night show. He's rapping like a motherf**ker on this right here. Though it took two listens before I was with the hook, that second verse is some sh*t. Seems he also co-produced it, which is the fastest way for a rapper to get my respect.