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Name of Scout. Pronouns of She/They. based in Cascadia, Heaven. im just here to have a good time. https://twitter.com/clown_depot AC:NL Dream Code: 5A00-0013-7E2F
Anonymous asked:

your thesis about your work is very interesting!! if i may ask, how do you feel when well meaning people miss the point and genuinely praise your raps? do u see that as just a lack of investigation or a subconscious celebration of the very thing youre satirizing (eg white rap coopting Black culture to self aggrandize etc etc)? either way i love the concept and execution!!

well, i take care to not write in a voice that isn't my own, which is the main problem with many white rappers.

often, when white rappers take imagery and verbiage from black culture for use in their rap, it's drawn from no actual lived experience. rap music, and the culture of hip-hop from which it spawned, is very explicitly a black form of art, and will always be inherently political for that reason. white, cishet, male artists are the only class of artist to have the luxury of never needing to think about what political implications their art actually has when they participate in it, and so when they choose to play in the hip-hop space, there will be friction by default. (note: im not exempt from these conceptions of whiteness just because im queer, nor is any other pasty homo.)

that said, very few people make the argument "white people shouldn't rap at all" in earnest. the issue is often twofold.

one is that most white rappers see participating in a black art form as needing to perform "blackness", as it has been defined to them as an outsider to the group that has been labeled "black," and the lived experiences that comes with that label. how that typically manifests is in a tone-deaf-at-best caricature that rings disingenuously, which is especially apparent in an art form which rewards honesty in expression.

the second issue, and the much more material one, is that white people will straight up have an easier time getting acclaim as rappers because they are white, and that will lead to money and attention and spotlight being taken away from actual black artists in the field-- which is often compounded by the fact that they will then neglect to actually funnel money back into the community of black artists that they are actively benefiting off of.

that's why, in my rap, my only two goals are

1) avoid making money, and

2) talk shit about white rappers as often as i possibly can, including myself.

if someone were to praise party trick for being a good rap song in the first half, i guess i'd feel awkward about being taken at face value. tho with the other ones, i guess i'd just try to be grateful, because i do typically try to write as honestly as i can.

if you'd like to hear more on this subject from someone who's actually melanated and therefore more qualified to speak on it, click here!

wrote this today in about an hour and a half. (instrumental)

this song is about uhhhhhhhhhhh well who knows really. lyrics below.

i was wondering why this one was being slept on cuz i rly feel like i went insane on it, but i realized that unfortunately when you write a song thats supposed to feel like someone cornering you at a party to force you to listen to their rap, it makes it an uncomfortable listen. not sure why i did not account for that.

Ok so you KNOW ur doing the bad whiteboy rap lyrical spiritual thing? Phew. I don't like being mean to people so I was gonna keep my mouth shut and let you follow your dreams but if that's what you're going for you nailed it 100%. This is terrible. I always turn it off seconds after it starts playing cuz I'm physically cringing. Nice job you're gonna annoy a lot of people with this one.

oh yeah! the whole thesis of the song is how i find it kind of grotesque when cringe white-boy rappers hold their conception of what rap is as "rhyming fast and sounding tough", using it as a vehicle for self-congratulation, more often than not co-opting and gentrifying black imagery and language in the process. which is why the literal content of the song is a nauseating encounter with someone who wants to wear the listener's skin, saying they'd pull it off better than you.

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thats me!

redditor assuming my identity to steal valor for my jokes on the game grumps subreddit

dont be a liar, eli.

wrote this today in about an hour and a half. (instrumental)

this song is about uhhhhhhhhhhh well who knows really. lyrics below.

i was wondering why this one was being slept on cuz i rly feel like i went insane on it, but i realized that unfortunately when you write a song thats supposed to feel like someone cornering you at a party to force you to listen to their rap, it makes it an uncomfortable listen. not sure why i did not account for that.

30 days of continuous and permanent closure of the crossings in all directions, 30 days without a single morsel of food entering Gaza, 30 days of famine and the return of genocide

Eid has come to the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli aggression has not ended. The occupation is still practicing ethnic cleansing against us and our children. The situation here is catastrophic. Please continue to help.

my mom is playin fuckn animal crossing in real life

she got this painting for $75 in an old case at an antique market shes been going to for years, and she thought it looks really beautiful, so she sent an email to a local art center to have it appraised

and now she has an art conservator in her emails making a plan to have her come bring it in to be appraised as a genuine Hokusai wood block print from over a hundred of years ago

thats so fucked up to me. my mom went fuckin shopping at Crazy Redd's

no joke, she got it at an antique market. but she didnt even buy the painting. she bought a bag that the painting was in, cuz she's an artist.

when she got home, the bag fell over, and the painting fell out. into the lap of an unsuspecting small town idaho girl (my ma) (that's how she described it).

movie shit.

If anyone, at all, can match even a 10th of my donation, I'd consider it a massive christmas gift.

Please, help my friend Mohammed. His family is cold, and hungry.

It would mean a great deal to me.

You can find his fundraiser here,

And you can see that it's been vetted by 90-Ghost here.

already posted this as audio, but im happy with how the lyric video came out so im posting it here too

a song with lyrics written in 15/8

funniest thing someone has ever said about my music

why did you use the awkward party scene from The Snob for the background

because this song is about how i'm good at rapping and it's over a ballroom style sample in 15/8, which is an INCREDIBLY snobby thing to do i think.

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