listen to the weekend for sheils. charity evening.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
This is the opening line to "Gasoline"
craner
Beast of Burden
It's a manifesto for living
shiels
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What are you talking about?
shakahislop
Well-known member
There’s something about Creepin which does feel like a continuation of the Drake / Kanye continuum, sonically for sure with all the murky processed strings, but particularly in terms of expressing weakness in a traditionally hyper-masculine form. It’s a tortured tune. Similarly to Drake and Kanye there’s also a discomfort with promiscuity, although with Drake is more implied than explicit (‘all the bitches and money and I’m still not alright’ is a blatant subtext helped along a lot by his choice of beats but its certainly not expressed directly in the words) and with Kanye you get the sense that he’s not even aware of it, he’s proud of it, but it’s easy to read his stuff at the time of dark twisted fantasy and Yeezus as being a kind of trauma reaction to sleeping around.
I suppose you could extend the lineage back to Eminem, who has also mined a seam of misery and frustration, particularly when he started singing in the post-Marshall Mathers period. Although he’s more interested in violence than the ladies.
There is something interesting as well about that kind of thing being popular at the same time as the emergence of the Cardi B, Kali, Meagan Thee Stallion as major mainstream rap / pop stars, where the whole point is a kind of strident female confidence and in particular reversing old rap misogynist tropes and turning them into a new misandry. It looks like the gender convulsion of the past ten years in the anglo world playing out in mainstream rap, which is probably both responding to and quite a key force in how that plays out.
I suppose you could extend the lineage back to Eminem, who has also mined a seam of misery and frustration, particularly when he started singing in the post-Marshall Mathers period. Although he’s more interested in violence than the ladies.
There is something interesting as well about that kind of thing being popular at the same time as the emergence of the Cardi B, Kali, Meagan Thee Stallion as major mainstream rap / pop stars, where the whole point is a kind of strident female confidence and in particular reversing old rap misogynist tropes and turning them into a new misandry. It looks like the gender convulsion of the past ten years in the anglo world playing out in mainstream rap, which is probably both responding to and quite a key force in how that plays out.