Oh my fucking god I just wanted to say how otherworldly bad music is right now (pop has always been stupid to varying levels but oh my fucking god they have raised the stakes). I just listened to a bunch of pop tracks from various genres and I literally think I’m about to die. Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad. It’s like Walmart made a gun that can shoot cum and blood and piss and shit and puke into your soul. We are so fucking fucked. I want to saw my own head off.
Can you speak on the jpegmafia thing a bit? I like his music but don’t really follow him as a person.
Aight so early on in his career, man kinda built his image off behind like. I’d call it a radical aesthetic if not for his recent heel turn, cause now all that just feels like it was marketing edge-- but he had tapes titled shit like “communist slow jams” (look up “Devon Hendryx” on youtube for those old projects) and shit like that, has had some based discussions with Talib Kweli before-- but there’s this song of his, ALL CAPS NO SPACES, where this is one of the verses
ALL CAPS NO SPACES lyrics (CW: gendered slurs)
Makes this whole big noise about being anti-Pantera, anti-Burzum, especially anti-Varg, right? Well, couple months ago, JPEGMAFIA turns up in a picture next to Kanye West, who is wearing a Burzum shirt in that photo; presumably tryna get a production credit on Kanye’s upcoming album at the time (which iirc, he got). When pressed on how this doesn’t line up with the beliefs he’s espoused before, he replied to the tune of “fuck all the bullshit, I just wanna get paid”. Which, I’m not gonna begrudge a producer getting their chips… But you can’t talk all that radical shit you spat and then let yourself be photographed next to the single most regressive Uncle Tom in rap wearing merch of an act you claim to want to crack the skulls of.
Peggy likes wrestling a lot; well, the motherfucker’s all kayfabe to me after that. He tried to justify it by “kanye been his hero all his life” or smth like that and I’m here like 'yeah, he was mine too-- emphasis on WAS, once he started demonstrating how stuck in the Sunken Place he is, that was it for him!’