Andy Hutchins

I'm not you. I'm not you, rapper. I'm not you.

[Andy Hutchins @RockabyeReview]

@DJRTistic Thought is also the lead artist of a band he is at most the 1B creative force for, whatever Questo will ever say, which is … just a different role? His longest “solo” project isn’t as long as Illmatic! It’s hard to compare them as architects, for me.

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Tay Keith didn’t see 30. Quan didn’t see 35. Dolph was 36. Takeoff would have turned 32 literally today. Pop Smoke didn’t get to 21.

How long will the list get? How long does the list have to be?

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It took a TV show? https://t.co/UK2IdAOl4l

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Underrated dopeness of some of these with rap legacy acts: The old folks mixing with the youths in the backing bands.

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8Ball & MJG perform “Space Age Pimpin’ for their NPR Tiny Desk concert:

https://t.co/gu2LiBkKVK

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“They booted me while stepping on the pest, but now they hung-a-ry” shits on this entire ouevre.

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Drake’s GeoGuessr bars are almost so bad that I regret not having grabbed an almanac and run through the entire United Nations on a “parody” Twitter account years ago to salt the earth.

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“Ha” and “Back That Azz Up” have four of the most important and influential flows/cadences in the history of rap — we are counting the hooks — and they’re on the same album.

Also Mannie made the beats TO THE LYRICS?

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On “Its Every Night Sis,” Ricegum and Alissa Violet somehow capably trace the Juve “Back That Azz Up” flow for a full eight bars. It’s legitimately startling.

(They should not let me use the Internet after like 2 a.m. for my sake and yours.)

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Playing “It Ain’t My Fault 2” on the radio THIS WEEK sure is a choice!

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I cannot believe Ella Langley is going to get me to finally start writing the songwriting column I’ve had percolating for a decade.

Also: “Choosin’ Texas” into “Nonsense” just now made for a MUCH more stark contrast.

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“Choosin’ Texas” into “Style” into “It’s So Easy (To Fall in Love)” just now really reinforces which of those songs are well-written and which are catchy.

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Every time, those first four bars of “Mamacita” almost trick me into thinking Travis is gonna really, really rap. Then the rest of the verse happens. Then Thug and Quan rap cometary orbits around him. That’s what you get for hoping.

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Recommended Thug’s “Keep in Touch” to the Dunkin guy with whom I have a rapport. Here’s hoping he likes it.

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Drake’s GeoGuessr bars are almost so bad that I regret not having grabbed an almanac and run through the entire United Nations on a “parody” Twitter account years ago to salt the earth.

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(This post brought to you in part by the The Social Reckoning trailer, which I also struggle to make myself mishear like I could never quite mishear “fanute” unless I was trying. My ears work fine? I listen well?)

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It occurs to me that most of the Knicks roster knows “fanute the coupe” from high school — if they know it at all.

(I don’t need to know if Jordan Clarkson knows it. But he was at TULSA when it dropped.)

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44-year-old Pitbull and 54-year-old Lil Jon making “Damn I Love Miami” feels deeply embarrassing before you learn it’s a song FROM THE BAD BOYS FOR LIFE (2020) SOUNDTRACK that got released as a single FIVE YEARS LATER.

Marginally less embarrassing now.

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Also if Dr. Luke had any idea what he was doing with Kesha as an artist — and not … y’know — she could have beaten Gaga to market and prominence. What a counterfactual universe that would be.

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Beating his ass in the quote tweets, etc., but as someone who vividly recalls a six-digit YouTube play count of “Just Dance”: Digital download in April 2008, KonLive release in June, actually released to U.S. radio in September … after it was No. 1 in Canada by August.

[Gaga Daily @gagadaily]

Akon recalls signing Lady Gaga and working for a full year to break “Just Dance” after it failed to take off at first:

“I literally had to tour the world to push it”

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There was really a period of about three to five months in 2008 when Gaga was known best to NYC clubbers and Popjustice nerds. And Akon really was critical in that period between “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” hitting. HOW critical is debatable.

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It’s a song about a tipsy kiss in a bar and she’s got him on the walls of Versailles. She’s gonna be here doing this for 30 years or until she gets bored.

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Rhyming “eleven” with “heaven”: Rudimentary, passé, even clichéd.

Rhyming “bar closes at eleven” to “words to ‘Just Like Heaven’”: Erudite, genius, poetic.