confused by people calling the dijon album experimental. to me it’s like a modern scritti politti album in our post-frank ocean, jai paul, and bon iver age. songs go down so easy, production isn’t shocking so much as thoughtfully arranged. they’re contemporary love songs.
@misterminsoo I agree. Rlly its just messy, I was stoked on fantastic damage by el p fwiw-the mess was exciting n optimistic. Simple devotional tunes over lots of sounds was the puzzle. The more “experimental” shit got removed because it felt cyncial for the themes tbh. thanks 4 peepin it!
Our music has always been deep. It’s always been complex and it’s always been soulful/spiritual. We use hip hop to evolve. To protest. To celebrate. Etc. Art/music plays a role in why a lot of us are proud to be black today. Our culture is all through these genres. Don’t let these people brainwash you into disconnecting from the soul of hip hop by convincing you it isn’t cool or it’s “too deep”. It’s always been that deep for us and it should stay that way. We created it! Once we lose the soul we’ve lost the genre.
Nobody should be redefining our art form but us. Anybody talking shit about hip hop that makes you think or makes you feel something— should immediately be recognized as a opp. Ask yourself what they gain from us watering down our music, taking the soul out, only discussing surface level topics and becoming less conscious. Only a specific group of people benefit from us not being introspective.
Tighten up.