Finally got a son I can be proud of
yes. very smart. this is why we needed belgian techno gay transvestite bears meets UK drill not Unknown T. you are really peaking bahti.
There's a future that london's been hiding from.
it can be seen in the pitchfork androgyny of young thug. in the boo hoo minstrel smile of quavo. in the bleach of kartel's skin. in lil wayne's skateboard.
it is an autotune future. a post-gender future. a post-human future.
it is abstract and abstracted. dissociative. it rejects concrete. it rejects weight. it is the cold glare of an iphone screen in a dark bedroom. it is viscous. it is spastic.
london could not entertain this future as presented by atlanta. it couldn't entertain this future when presented by africa. it couldn't entertain this future when presented by jamaica. until now perhaps.
tommy lee is this future. he's absorbed young thug. he's absorbed cloud rap. he's absorbed wayne and kartel and alkaline. and yet... there is a humanity there. there is aggression and mania. yearning. ego. drive.
tommy lee is the human future. whether london embraces him or not is yet to be seen.
whatever future is awaiting london, one thing is for sure.
it'll be glorious.
Tommy Lee has swallowed Mavado whole too. He's got the whole world in his belly.
Not what I was hoping for, to be honest. Would have preferred 100 tracks, with some write up. But I know these things take time and there's better things to be doing.
Let's talk About this
This hit me the first time I heard it and it's still all time to me. I love this one. And I love the volatile beanpole physicality of that other one that's not Russ. Let's call him samurai jack who cares what his name is
corpse pioneered this new dissensus. the school talent show dissensus.
"now little oliver here's going to show us all favourite songs and tell us about all the women he's shagged."
from there we get
"now third is going to make a list of all the techno they play really loud at prisoners in abu ghraib when they do human rights abuses."
and
"now cheeky boy barty is going to show us the astonishing lengths he'll go to try and fit in with the black girls he wants to inseminate"