killer mike raps el-p produces "R.A.P. Music"

... & yes, I acknowledge my complicity in the societal power structures that create a desire for imaginary rap hardmen v_v;

dudes also say things like "you punks is pussy proverbial pansy panty-holders"

this sort of makes me want to do a Fake El-P thread but it would probably stop being funny half a joke in

it would be hysterical for longer than that but would still inevitably got bogged down in both people being like "lol omg def jux/backpacker shit was SOOO STUPID HAHA" and then former or current fans of that shit saying that nobody got it/gets it

what do you guys think of the new single tho

Its good there all good imma def jux dickrider

*duckrider, fuckin autocorrect

both the singles have been goddamn great. bit more down with "oh my darling don't cry" but by a small margin at best

i think old ILM can take some credit for this: https://twitter.com/ystrickler/status/520335503414267905

http://jezebel.com/a-brief-taxonomy-of-the-fuccboi-rip-1638331191

first time i thought i heard "fuckboy" in rap was mystikal's big truck boys which i always heard as "Buckle up boy/ain't no fuckboy" but rap genius thinks i'm wrong

I could swear Onyx says "see you in the next life, fuckboy" in "Nigga Bridges"

Sugarhill Gang said "Clark Kent y'all some fuck boys" iirc

wait, yancey strickler, former ILXOR, is the CEO of kickstarter???

Yup

where you been mang?

o_O

"Blockbuster Night" is top 5 rap songs of 2014 for me

Run The Jewels - El-P and Killer Mike

Still a great album, but it’s really getting hard for me to like this guy:

https://www.spin.com/2018/03/killer-gun-ownership-nra-video-watch/

it's completely valid to push back on white liberal conceptions of gun control (for a lot of reasons) but choosing to do so on NRA TV was a really fuckin bad look and I hope he acknowledges that instead of doubling down

I saw someone on twitter defend him by saying it's no different than going on Fox news, which basically everyone does, but I don't think that holds up

I hope he acknowledges that instead of doubling down

― Simon H., Sunday, March 25, 2018 10:07 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last night on twitter it seemed like he was...doing both? or splitting the difference? doubling down on his message (nb i didn't see the video) and also saying that he didn't really care about the NRA as an organization, it was just an opportunity to get his side out there

I think him bragging about threatening to kick his kids out of the house if they march is going to make me ignore him from now on

yeah that was bullshit

never heard of him before he hooked up w/ Bernie so i aint invested

the bernie quote that was like 'well i was worried he was an actual killer, but now i understand he is just a killer rapper' is still adorable but ya fuck this guy

I think him bragging about threatening to kick his kids out of the house if they march is going to make me ignore him from now on

― President Keyes, Sunday, March 25, 2018 11:49 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

fwiw none of this stuff is new? like, i think he's been pretty open about his views on gun ownership for a while

There's a difference between nuanced opinions on gun ownership and claiming you'd toss your kids out of the house if they participated in a march for Gun Control.

In that, one I probably don't agree with (but just as likely don't have enough info on), and the other is despicable.

showing up on a video clip for an org that has a history of being for gun restrictions, but only when black men show up with guns, seems like a bad move

from a good thread picking apart the appearance

Overall thoughts. People who are drawing a comparison between Killer Mike on NRATV and Leftists on Fox News are incorrect. This is not really a nuanced conversation on Gun control or the history of Black gun owners, it's sole purpose is to have a black face parrot talking points

— The People v. Brandon Sutton (@PrettyBadLefty) March 25, 2018

love how this guy goes from genius to idiot pawn of the machinations of the nra just for having a non-partyline opinion and not being as white as bernie. racists.

to clarify, 'racists' --> ppl like those in the above quoted tweet, not the ppl posting in this thread

Brandon Sutton is black, you absolute moron.

Anyway, RL Stephens takes a different tack.

The truth is that when NAACP leader Robert F Williams organized a community defense program against the Klan in NC in the 50’s, the group was chartered by the NRA. This story is more complicated and politically contested than we often acknowledge.

— R.L. Stephens (@RLisDead) March 25, 2018

the NRA in the fifties was not the NRA of the '90s and today. I'm sure the Tweet feed goes into this discussion.

Brandon Sutton is black, you absolute moron.

WOW so was the person who said this

"We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out."

the NRA in the fifties was not the NRA of the '90s and today. I'm sure the Tweet feed goes into this discussion.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, March 25, 2018 5:56 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

narrator: it didn't

kinda uninterested in any exoneration of the nra after the revolt at cincinnati

I said nothing about "exoneration." It's a fact that the NRA before 1968 was a different organization.

oh no, im not directing that at you, thats to RL's thread/simon

uh me neither?

https://pitchfork.com/news/killer-mike-apologizes-for-nra-interview-in-new-video-watch/

There's a lot here that makes sense, even if the timeline doesn't quite clear up his "march right out of the house" remark, but I still question the very idea of appearing on "NRA-TV" (which I didn't even know existed until today).

xp sorryyyyyyyyyyy just to rl's thread

*vindicated for hating run the jewels all along*

getting sassed again:

Killer Mike gotta take a year off of being woke. pic.twitter.com/mJrXfrKRKJ

— Vince Valholla (@VinceValholla) April 8, 2018

killer mike is a fucking ninny

wanna rethink that one, k3vin?

ok had to google "ninny racist" and yeah, apologies, mods please change to "jackass"

*googles quickly*

oh good, reckon we can get about a hundred posts on whether nincompoop is a derivation of pickaninny or not