The vocal interplay in Get Up is the best thing in the world. It's crazy how good that record despite being something of a tonal outlier among their work up to that point, integrating more melancholy, searching emotive vocals and melodies.

This series straight up has some of the most beautiful, brutal, and searching prose I've ever had the fortune of reading; it's like Virginia Woolf writing Tolstoy. The reaction here to every Ferrante-related article is disappointing as shit.

Agree completely, especially since he disrupted his earlier flow to dumb it down like "hey bitch, in the simplest possible terms, this is how it is."

Um Hive, Centurion, and Whoa are somewhat faster songs off his first album, Doris. There's also his first mixtape, which has some upbeat songs like Earl & Epar, but sometimes the shock-rap subject matter on those can be offputting to people (keep in mind he's *sixteen* on that record).

He did a Twitter q&a where he said it was Earl, but dude could he like me where he sometimes rotates out the cast for stuff like this. Danny fucking snaps though.

I think Kendrick's still the all around reigning king, but Earl (Kenny's own fave apparently) could give anyone a run for their money as far as pure rapping ability goes. Kid was sixteen coming out like a combo of DOOM & Eminem and in his own way he's been as focused on evolving as Kendrick.

Seems to me that that the problem was not with lack of immediate action, but with inadequate/nonexistent justifications of the lack of action and urgency regarding this specific issue in the past and how that seems unlikely to be changing moving forward