Nothing gives an old head like me hope like the sight of two dudes in their 40s absolutely shutting shit down.
So, yeah. This post is culled from a few weeks of quarantine listening.
Khruangbin is a band that decided to just make “Genius of Love” over and over and I love it.
If this shit had come out when I was like 11, I would have been crazy into it. But it didn’t. The jazz rap that did come out back then was Digable Planets, though, so I did all right.
Speaking of. Ishmael Butler is like the OG king of washed jazz dads everywhere.
So I struggled for like 3 weeks to write a long ass post that connected R.A.P. Ferreira to Digable Planets, how Jay-Z no longer has to chase success so he can just drop super dense rap nerd bars, and how impossible it was going to be for Jay Electronica to live up to the hype, and how this all forms a loose biography of my own taste in music. But I couldn’t make it go. Shout out to Jay Elec for recognizing the best move, though: making your debut album a Jay-Z EP.
22 years in, Gorillaz release their best song yet. The old guys are doin’ it in 2020, y’all.