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Jon Caramanica on Drake’s “Iceman” being pure writer’s music 🔥 “So many words… It’s a very written album. These are written lines.” “I imagine the Notes app, if there is a Notes app, where it’s like: best possible line about Jay-Z, best possible line about Khaled, best possible line about Rocky… literally cross out, better, cross out, better… until you land on ‘I’d take 500k over the dinner any day.’” “Drake is so sure of these words, he’s not using a pencil — he’s writing this in pen.” Jon calls it an excellent record but notes it’s not chasing radio hits or summer anthems like Maid of Honour could. Instead, it feels more time-specific and focused — the most focused he’s felt in a Drake project since the surprise release of If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. via Popcast

My theory of Drake hate has a lot to due to with the socialization of millennial white boys who would talk about “real music” (dadrock) against Justin Bieber in their youth, transferring that to Wayne/Drake in the YOLO era, but at the same time becoming “poptimistic” regarding rap (Kanye specifically) in the Obama era when it became gauche to not listen to rap, so then adopting the “real rap” borrowed authenticity in order to shield from accusations of “not getting the culture”— Kanye became problematic— so Kendrick Lamar was the golden child for this exact moment— one could now just say “Kendrick” & be “a real one” — & a Pulitzer Prize too! Nobody will judge you for “slumming it” when it’s “literary”— The Millennial White Boy is now a Millennial White Man & he says “Kendrick bodied Drake” & feels that he has absolved himself of all the guilt of saying “music is like candy, you throw out the rappers” in elementary school— Drake is too close to himself, Drake is a “white boy” in these terms of “ethnic authenticity” where the definition of “real rap” is west coast gangster rap that was “political” — this is what the Pitchfork review of Iceman is, “Drake is unserious party music, but Real Rap is Political and about Race & that’s Kendrick, & I am an intellectual” — they are still embarrassed about the idea of music being “fun” or “for the clubs” etc— music must be “an object of contemplation” to be “art.” Music isn’t for enjoying a car ride, in the car we listen to NPR, music is like a movie, you sit down with an album-experience, a concept album, & treat it like it’s a movie. Rap becomes an “audiobook/podcast” about the “real experience of african americans”— & you can tune in once a year & this is your penance for being “lowkey racist” against the genre in your youth. Real music is still a Pink Floyd concept album to you— it has to be narrativized as opera— it has to be HAMILTON hahahahaha

🎥 ASAP Rocky & Rihanna leaving NYC tonight with their babies 🤍

First look at Hal Jordan in his Green Lantern suit in ‘LANTERNS’.

Today. Noon. Fuentes.

Telling the barista at Starbucks i clogged the toilet as Im leaving

Curry Barker is exposing Hollywood in real time. $750k for a film that blows all these movies with over inflated budgets, created by agenda driven talentless hacks, out of the water. Content creators are clearly the future of the entertainment industry. Time to clean house.

RFK Jr: “People are going to jail for Twitter posts in England.” Joe Rogan: “12,000 people in the last year.” RFK Jr: “It’s a dictatorship.”

Pitchfork rates Drake’s “ICEMAN” a 4.8 “The problem is, all of this insight — free grousing used to be fun, and Drake's music — his rap music, at least — hasn't made prolonged contact with fun in a decade. Instead, every new Drake project is a buffet of humiliation, mortification, and self-serving delusion. On ICEMAN, we get a few teaspoons of nourishing hilarity, but mostly it's a long platter of the cold, lumpy self — pity that made us push our chairs back in the first place.”

If you're a grown man playing video games for more than 5 hours a week, your wife is definitely checked out of the marriage. Put the controller down and go build something or play with your kids. it’s embarrassing.

Kind of things you notice in your 30s+. No 20 year old is saying club culture is dying. It is okay to outgrow things. Accept it and move on.

I've aged out of Drake's music .. it's just not for me no more .. and that's ok.

Joe got 200k ppl subscribed to his patreon yea I would never rap again either