If you are someone who doesn’t appreciate hip hop music, get yourself a pair of headphones, close your eyes and listen to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” - his voice is the main rhythm track.The actual drums merely accompany his voice’s sophisticated percussion
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PS: if you like hip hop, this is pretty much the how good rap has always worked. The genius comes from writing and vocalising socially conscious (or not) lyrics in sophisticated percussive fills. The actual beat is always supposed to be simple & repetitive
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“I rap, I black on track so rest assured
My rights, my wrongs, I write 'til I'm right with God”
Genius
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And if you are going “hey you are 7 years too late”, let me paraphrase Einstein - it’s never too late to open another fragment at the frontier of beauty for someone else.
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Since you’re on this topic, I highly recommend listening to a podcast called Dissect that breaks down each track on Kendrick Lamar’s album. You will be blown away by the level of detail.
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