keyboard funk. As the only single fromSiccness, “R.I.P.” summed up the concerns of a rapper-producer who pioneered slang like “sicc,”“ripgut,” and “locc.”“Thoughts of death cloud my mind,” raps Lynch as he describes the trauma of losing his friends to gang violence.—M.R...
Jay Rock, the streets-hardened stalwart of L.A. hip-hop, isn’t really known as a party-starter — but “Too Fast (Pull Over)” makes it clear that he still knows how to set a vibe. Step one: Invite your most fun friends, in this case Anderson .Paak and Latto. Step two: Put...
There’s almost a kind of musical violence to the electronic chorus, a jolting soundtrack for a woman throwing herself onto the tile over a bad call with a good looker. 65 The Last Great American Dynasty Swift really, really likes women who are viewed as insane. Hard to imagine why, ...
“Sitting on my doorstep, thinking with my head down/Alone in my own world with no one left around/Then out of nowhere comes my partner Majesty, asking me/’Yo, Izz why you look like there’s been a tragedy?” Izzy replies
With boom-bap drums punctuated by the squeal of sampled horns, “How I Could Just Kill A Man” is the battle cry of disaffected youth driven to meet violence with violence. In some ways it sits on other side of the same coin as Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day”; where Cube’s ...
“Love Me More” feels like an assemblage of Mitski’s best songwriting tricks: Combine the yearning repetition of “I Bet on Losing Dogs” (“My baby, my baby/You’re my baby, say it to me”), the indelible synths of “Why Didn’t You Stop Me” and “Nobody,” and the climactic...
After detailing separate situations of impulsive violence, Van Zant made the point as the closing moments of this song drew near: “Handguns are made for killin,' they ain't no good for nothin' else – and if you like to drink your whiskey, you might even shoot yourself.” He didn't...
Young sings about a lone 22-year-old left to defend his no-account outlaw kin against government soldiers now that his daddy’s dead, with the corrosive majesty in Young’s frontier-grunge guitar mirroring his protagonist’s doomed dream of freedom. “It shows the futility of violence,” ...
arrives on the back of Maxo losing his brother Madu to gun violence, and also becoming a father. Both topics are covered on this project, and the somber undertones throughout the work as a whole lend to the heaviness of what he's been dealing with. Maxo reveals his entire career has ...
With what happened to me, I didn’t feel strong. I felt stupid. I felt like I had really fucked up. I was really embarrassed and I didn’t know how to tell anybody about it. Something that’s really confusing about being assaulted by your partner is that there’s this feeling of bl...