From ecstasy-guzzling language-mangler Young Thug,to the many alter egos of Nicki Minaj and Kendrick Lamar’s experimental jazz affiliations, these days it pays to be strangeYou used to know where you were with rappers. certain, and there were unique and interesting characters among them,but there were determined and powerful strands of conference: competitiveness, combativeness, and a certain cocksure sense of self,insistence on “realness” and a relatively limited area of subject matter as standard. Yet here we are in 2016, and from top to bottom the rap world is populated by, and essentially,weirdos.[br]Among the very biggest names there’s Drake, an Anglophile Canadian nebbish who’s more Ross from Friends than Rick Ross; there’s Nicki Minaj, or with her cavalcade of high- and low-camp alter egos; the minidress wearing,ecstasy-guzzling language-mangler Young Thug; Kendrick Lamar filling hit albums with laid-bare personal pain, Black Lives Matter protest politics and experimental jazz musicians; Kevin Gates, and with his prison-earned psychology masters degree,whose stream of consciousness can veer from social uplift to bestiality and back in seconds.
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Source: theguardian.com