If you are the stereotypical college student that I know you are, than I am sure that you spend a few nights a month out at the club shaking you ass to songs from the Top 40 list.
You know the whole chorus, girls start grinding like crazy when the featured artist drops their verse, and there is a commotion in the club. Once the night is over, you stumble home and go to bed, assured that you had a great time and you still freakin' love that song. The next morning you’re on YouTube and decide to watch a lyric video of whatever rap song it was you were jamming to. And once you actually sit there and read the lyrics… the only thought you have is “WTF??”
Work By ASAP Ferg for example makes references to one-night stands and having cheerios in the morning, to the French word for horses, to murders in Trinidad and Tobago. Then ASAP Ferg goes on to tell you that his style is just oh so unique and special that you couldn’t possibly be able to go and just copy it at someplace like Kinko’s. How delightful.
Started from bottom by Drake has to be one of my favorites. I grew up watching Aubrey Graham… oh excuse me, Drake, on Degrassi. His little behind was privileged on the show and he grew up being privileged. What, exactly does he mean by bottom? The bottom of what?? Middle class suburbia?? Oh tell that little whiney story of yours to people out in the Bronx or Compton, you little baby.
There is one song that tops it all. Danny Brown is known for being a little bit eccentric to say the least. I have not had the…privilege… of listening to that many of his songs, but if they are at all like Kush Coma, than I am assure you that I probably won’t be buying concert tickets anytime soon. The entire song is just a bunch of metaphor for how he feels when he is smoking Kush. He feels like he is in space, riding an elevator on a roller coaster, on clouds of marshmallows. Obviously, the whole thing is lyrical genius.
If this is what it takes to be a millionaire rap artist, than I just don’t know what I am doing here trying to get an education.
