I wanna be a video artist when I grow up.

This ish is hilarious man. My God, it’s Pavlovian.

while sfj’s (admittedly mild relative to many other critics’) paternalism did irk me i didn’t mean for it to come off as the crux of my argument. i left it at the beginning of my response because it was literally the first thing i wrote in response to the first thing i read and on the real it was mostly for the “go in” factor, on some “oh i guess they want us to browbeat homeboy a little bit,” which, now that you mention it, is def on some ressentiment shit and on some “white masks” type expectation fulfillment. hima even pointed out that i was on some nominal caveat shit and i was like “i know, but mine doesn’t undermine my argument as much as his does” which i actually do think is true *to an extent* but is lazy.

if i could write it again, i would probably just stick to pointing out the inconsistencies of dude’s terms, say “everything is everything” or “who cares?” and be out.

also to clarify, i guess i could have made it more clear that the “genealogical statements” i made were not meant to serve as one cohesive time line that i personally subscribe to so much as any number of diverse (conflicting, even) things you could call rap “depending on how one chooses one’s criteria.” similarly, i don’t think i made it clear enough when i used andre, tip and common as arguable precedents for blueprint 3 and 808s, that this is only if we choose to accept sfj’s a priori argument that there is even a genre that exists to “bend.” i guess i indulged in arguing on his terms for the sport of it cause honestly it’s kind of fun but end of the day foucault is my real wifey.

so yeah, on the whole i think i was doing more work to illustrate inconsistencies in sfj’s piece then to present my own alternative means of ordering things, but this is mostly to do with my reluctance to see the importance of tasks like that in the first place. in short, i did it for the pr. that said, i could have cut out like three paragraphs and it would have been sharper and honestly more, well… honest.

still, thanks for keeping it extra extra trill as per usual.

(sorry)

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That Carpignano dude reminds me of someone.