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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

The Millennial supremacy will be studied for generations

Steve Bannon has pissed himself at the World Economic Forum

It pulls you in from the very first second. Pumped Up Kicks (2011).

So I wrote a memoir

All adventurous women do.

What is wrong with him