tumblr rapper kitty pryde

pretty flimsy, bruh

well i mean, not to keep drawing out the obvious comparison, but a year ago deej saw kreayshawn's youtube, and blogged about it and interviewed her as quickly as possible. this year a bunch of other people are doing the same thing w/ KP, and other than firsties and song quality i don't feel like there's a world of difference there.

p sure deej is captain america and whiney is the hulk

how can captain america be an avenger and have no discernible personality

he gets twitchy when you mess with his idealistic values

fwiw this is def one of the worst songs i've ever heard

just another male critic crapping on a teenage girl

can't wait to see the google traffic from that post

Idk al I think theres a diff between me interviewing an artist who did a song I like for a personal website vs an nyt article

whiney was having an interesting (no really!) discussion on twitter abt this, tumblrwave type shit like this being as much about how much easier it is to be a 'journalist' when all you have to do is go thru someone's online presence & report on what you found there instead of, say, being paid to fly down to louisiana and cover the lil boosie trial

the thing is, I agree with you, and strongly actually, but one should be on guard against putting too much value on these distinctions imo. "the harder get-your-hands-dirty work that the current generation doesn't have to do" sort of stance is a p. bad look that'll glide quietly but perniciously into old-manism if you're not super-cautious about it </unsolicitedolddudeadvice>

by the way this music sounds awful and none of you should be paying any attention to it there is way better stuff to listen to rap is awesome listen to good rap music and not this stuff lol

i totally agree with deej w/r/t kitty pryde's coverage. right now she deserves, at best, a small introductory box-out (in big-deal outlets like the NYT). not a fucking huge thinkpiece. i don't think that's symptomatic of kitty pryde specifically so much as music critics yet again being dumb suckers for gimmicks and novelty and stuff, esp in hip-hop and r&b, that deviates from the still-despised norm.

idk who actually wrote the thinkpiece but i probably feel vaguely contemptuous towards them - this is not a thing i would have dreamed of pitching and y'know what i'm proud of that - but i blame the editor way way more.

the times piece is not "fucking huge," also only like a third of it is really about kitty pryde

the piece is *actually* about karmin

but yeah AS I HAVE SAID ALREADY caramanica being employed at the new york times throws off the hype cycle, he should be fired

oh i got the impression from the hand-wringing it was huge

you didn't think i'd read it did you?

OMG lol it was caramanica? the dude who pitched and was commissioned and wrote the pitchfork reviews reviews piece? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL what a disgrace to everything he is

i like caramanica but then again i like, sort of, PRR, so

i also like 'ok cupid'

max, it was still 300 words in the NYT. most of those words aren't very good or informative, but still, that's a decent amount of exposure in the paper of record

i like caramanica but then again i like, sort of, PRR

i could never zing him as effectively as this

i'm sort of nostalgic for the old days of this thread, when everyone was on fire with the passionate fragrance of youth

300 words in the NYT vs 700 posts on ILM

ilx raison d'être is to discuss inane shit tho

well, maybe the NYT's too

Idk al I think theres a diff between me interviewing an artist who did a song I like for a personal website vs an nyt article

― man down (D-40), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i didn't realize the caramanica nyt thing was being held up as the main crime instead of however many other lower level outlets have also been covering nyt. so the problem is kreayshawn took x months to get thinkpieces in a bunch of big papers where KP took x days? things are moving faster all the time, my friend.

'have also been covering KP,' i meant to say

when KP racks up 30mill views lmk

or even gets played on radio

she's a sucker but she pulls it off. this song is a jealous number. you made it for me, which is a nice gesture sweetheart. you do look like an angel. and anything you say could break an eardrum, and guess what i blasted it and shattered it and blew it back in your face like sand from a looking glass in a way that looks like i blew a kiss. she knows how to deal a low blow, but can't hack it with the cards she doesn't stack. you should all ask yourselves how she knows me. she is still bitter
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when KP racks up 30mill views lmk

175k views in 6 days on "OK Cupid" btw fwiw. It has been weird to me for over 20 years now how rap fans dwell on how popular something is or isn't, completely do not get that at all - who gives a shit imo - I mean, I know, as an indie fucker I would say that, but seriously how is anybody whose wallet isn't directly affected by sales even remotely interested in YouTube views or not? whether something is worth discussing or not is proven or disproven by whether people have discussions about it, heavy qed shit here, if the Times publishes a story on something people don't actually care about (which happens all the time) it doesn't miraculously enter the people-are-talking cycle, it just goes away

really i think everyone's entitled to make fun of 4th rate white girl rappers and the bloggers who hype them up, but the guy who hyped up a 3rd rate white girl rapper has to take his lumps before he can act all high and mighty

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^ my cat's feelings about tumblr rapper kitty pryde

really i think everyone's entitled to make fun of 4th rate white girl rappers and the bloggers who hype them up, but the guy who hyped up a 3rd rate white girl rapper has to take his lumps before he can act all high and mighty

― kitty shayme (some dude), Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

suggesting kreayshawn is only one 'rate' above kitty pryde is nagl. gucci gucci was a dope song & it appealed to ppl who like just u know pop music. to me, the shit that makes kitty pryde 'notable' is pretty boring & in no way newsworthy.

im not suggesting something has to be popular for me to like it, but im tired of 'appealing to a certain crowd of post collegiate 20somethings looking for ''innovation'' narrowly defined in cloud rap / chillwave terms' as being such a driving cultural force & am more interested in hearing stories about ppl who aren't so over-covered as is

does that mean kitty pryde is 5th rate

jesus christ, al.

idg what i did wrong interviewing for my own website an artist who made a song i thought was dope. 'hyping up,' seriously?

hierarchy of white girl rappers

karmin < kitty pryde < kreayshawn < kesha

hey what's with all the k's?!?!?!

k flay

:-O

K K K

:-O

i guess i'll never understand you dudes since i basically use ILX to distract me from my day job, not endlessly discuss it

kyriarchy

A+

can we sell this thread as a thinkpiece

actually in the process of writing a piece for Noisey on her. LOL!

suggesting kreayshawn is only one 'rate' above kitty pryde is nagl. gucci gucci was a dope song & it appealed to ppl who like just u know pop music. to me, the shit that makes kitty pryde 'notable' is pretty boring & in no way newsworthy.

im not suggesting something has to be popular for me to like it, but im tired of 'appealing to a certain crowd of post collegiate 20somethings looking for ''innovation'' narrowly defined in cloud rap / chillwave terms' as being such a driving cultural force & am more interested in hearing stories about ppl who aren't so over-covered as is

― man down (D-40), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i totally share your basic philosophy here, to be clear, i'm just going hard on you because, y'know, that's what they call me, ol' "ship1ey gohard."

i think you are kind of throwing things on different sides of the fence whenever it suits you, though. one day kitty pryde is owl city and we should just let her be popular without talking about her, the next she's just a niche internerd thing. one day kitty pryde's problem is she appeals to people who don't really like rap, the next day kreayshawn's virtue is that she appeals to people who like pop.

agree

also i hope you realize '[having a negative opinion of kreayshawn] is nagl' is basically the language of the worst kind of comments box stan who is always SO EMBARRASSED FOR YOU that you're not backing the winning team and are about to be proven SO WRONG

hey what's with all the k's?!?!?!

maybe ask juicee Kouture

it's a konspiracy