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lil h Hearing house of balloons for the first time back in 2011 was like finding some music from the future you weren't supposed to hear yet, peeking behind the curtains of reality kind of stuff

as a site for critical learning in so many different subjects (at least while I was a student in Canada prior to university) and it made me think of what a future could look like if we had more meaningful engagement on a institutional/educational level.

critical analyses of the lyrics and explaining them back to their classmates. Thinking about the transformative powers of hip hop as an art form, but also what an educational curriculum that referenced and engaged with it more often as a teaching tool. Hip Hop is so underutilized

I saw a TikTok about a teacher saying that her school, which on another other day would have been one where a majority of its students listen to Drake, turned into a Kendrick school given the lyrical spat between the two. She said students who normally wouldn’t read were doing

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y'all i got got!! i was laid off from my job at apartment therapy this morning. going to use this time to start my book proposal but i'd like to have a full-time or part-time gig in the near future so please dm or email me with leads :) yonoella316 @ gmail dot com

I needed to read this from Mankaprr just to keep track but man, this is a journey into darkness. Yeesh. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne… via Rolling Stone

No disrespect in any form FLOSKI✰ will be tolerated on tour . family ties 🤞🏾

Sooo in both these raps, they’re accusing each other of treating women as disposable pawns.
And yet, references to women — moms, wives, BM, exes, secret daughter(?) — are the keys to take the hardest shots.

I was already uneasy when everyone was like “yes hate I love a hater!” But there are really heinous claims of gender based violence and about children in these songs AND yall cannot stop making 9/11 jokes in the middle of it is all this ruthlessness really not weird to yall?

Enough.

Antoine Hardy only one of them are trying to make enjoyable music. the other is speaking to an audience of one

Drake’s racial analysis is so childish, it’d be really funny if the whole song wasn’t so gross

I miss the chronological timeline now more than ever

There’s a difference between competence and mess