He definitely deserves credit for bringing Clams Casino beats into the mainstream, but who cares about a New York dude using Southern flows if he's lyrically much weaker than the guys he's copping flows from?

'it sounds just as bad when you call them "bumfuck hicks" as it would if they were to call an Asian a "gook"'

Lack of meaningful lyrics isn't really a problem - there are plenty of pretty great rappers who never stray outside or get deeper than standard gangsta or party cliches. There's a bunch of other ways that a rapper can stand out - distinctive personality, unusual voice, technical virtuosity, great eye for detail, knack…

It's just a coincidence - his name is Rakim, his rap name is Rocky, A$AP is the name of his crew.

Yep. The guy has great taste in beats, but has he come up with a single memorable lyric?

The way that they seem to be more offended by liberals being smug hypocrites than by conservatives doing things that actually hurt people really makes them look like privileged douchebags, though.

The Thick Of It works a bit better as a satire of British politics than Veep works as a satire of US politics, just because there really isn't much ideological distance left between the major parties in Britain. The hyper-partisan nature of US politics creates a whole other level of dysfunction that Veep hasn't…