Neon Screams!

[Corpsey]

Stuff like this (and Carti's "Codeine") is way more out there than most of the autotune stuff I've heard before


An interesting sort-of through line so far is where real emotion sits within it – is it obliterated, or simply distorted and occluded?

WELL, IS IT OR ISN'T IT?

 

[luka]

There is no emotion that's what he's saying, it's sensation over emotion

 

[Corpsey]

He talks about how the trauma that mumble rappers are seeking to escape via drugs still exists in the music though

 

[Corpsey]

Saying that what really hit home just now was the idea of poly-drug dissociation which speaks to a sense of (pleasant) emotional dislocation I feel listening to this music which reminds me of times on drugs where its all sensation and sometimes that's fun and sometimes you feel totally empty about it

 

[Corpsey]

Definitely intrigued (As I said elsewhere) to see how he fits uk drill into this argument cos it certainly doesn't occur to me as part of "vocal psychedelica"

 

[Corpsey]

Also to see if he can pull off a coup de gras and make me think Migos are good

 

[Benny Bunter]

There is no emotion that's what he's saying, it's sensation over emotion

I like how he uses the hugely symbolic Gully Vs Gaza war to illustrate this - that's where the battle for the future was fought and ultimately won by Kartel.

 

[luka]

Definitely intrigued (As I said elsewhere) to see how he fits uk drill into this argument cos it certainly doesn't occur to me as part of "vocal psychedelica"

He says himself that's a fudge

 

[version]

It's cool to see how much discussion it's sparked. Hope Barty's aware of the thread (and the tags).

 

[Corpsey]

Are there UK rappers mimicking the US mumble stuff?

I wonder if it's less exportable than trap because it depends on the use of xanax/oxycontin, etc. these more american drugs.

Also the americans I presume have a more heightened sense of unreality than over here.

 

[luka]

I sent it to him today

 

[Corpsey]

Kind of annoyed he didn't acknowledge Jay Kay's casting of himself as "the space cowboy" as precursor to all this identity slippage

 

[luka]

Are there UK rappers mimicking the US mumble stuff?

I wonder if it's less exportable than trap because it depends on the use of xanax/oxycontin, etc. these more american drugs.

Also the americans I presume have a more heightened sense of unreality than over here.

Yeah loads but it's really embaressing they get those drugs over here for the videos

 

[Corpsey]

I can't really imagine some of those drugs "working" in a country with a mild climate like this.

I connect those drugs in my head with the sweltering South

 

[luka]

I dunno have you seen those videos from Hamsterdam in Philidelphia?

 

[Corpsey]

Never knew about Vybz Kartel being a controversial anti rastafarian figure

This song, which I used to listen to in my early 20s a lot, makes sense now (it's all about shooting priests)

 

[luka]

Did you do skin bleaching?

 

[Corpsey]

Did you do skin bleaching?

If I bleached my skin I'd be transparent

Having read this book though I'm goiing to start wearing yellow contact lenses and get my face pierced like Pinhead

 

[Corpsey]

Perhaps transhuman corpsey won't feel so melancholic about not getting his knob sucked?

 

[version]

If I bleached my skin I'd be transparent

"Larry's not white, Larry's clear."