I told yall it was a literacy issue and everyone wanted to rip my head off. Back in the day, rappers had vast and diverse vocabulary. They used figurative language, and literary devices. And this is not about AAVE, because that’s a dialect. the new cats are vastly illiterate.
I go to war behind this genre of Black classics. I loveeeeeed Drumline, Roll Bounce, Johnson Family Vacation, Dreamgirls, Remember the Titans, The Preachers Wife!
Nothing beats the family friendly Black Classics.
Bernie, for all his flaws, in many ways laid some of the foundation for everything we’ve seen transpire lately from the democratic socialist wing of the Left. I have my critics but mostly I can’t help but be impressed by some of it.