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Remember when i said....

Pusha’s “Controversies” section is admirable from a literary perspective, and speaks to my obsession with rappers as literary legends of our century... -05.25.18

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Pusha T - DAYTONA

I will sweat one song on any album for a solid month. On “Invasion Of Privacy” it was “be careful”. That’s because of a boy I was stressing. Obvi. On DAMN., it was "Feel", because everyone likes a Fuck You song. But I can’t pick one on Pusha’s Daytona. I can’t. Is it "Come Back Baby" with that sample? "If You Know You Know"? Because that was the first song I heard and I freaked out? Is it Santeria because when I heard the Spanish verse I was like omg yas fuck Yas? "What Would Meek Do"? When he mentions Dylon out the top and then Kanye shares more boops? Tear face laugh emoji. I dunno. I can’t tell. Thats the Sign of a good album. Track length is classic and respectable. Want more? Too bad, this is how I made this song. You shall remain thirsty. Nothing superfluous. You know who else does that? Fiona Apple. But I digress. It is a senior album full of well earned confidence. But lets's be honest, he's King Push. This is to be expected. Oh but the lyrics! What's better than a king? A Dragon? This is not a dragons breath thing tho. Pusha's "Controversies" section is admirable from a literary perspective, and speaks to my obsession with rappers as literary legends of our century, I'll address that obsession in a later piece. Pusha has brought me back to rap SEVERAL times when I had given up on my faith. from his Clipse days, where they were the one common ground shared with my back home friends when I'd returned from college having read too much artsy fartsy stuff. I went to what I think was supposed to be a Kedrick performance? Well whoever it was supposed to be didn't show. But who did? Pusha. And he killed it, at Irving Plaza to an under-appreciative crowd of ad people who didn't really know who he was. Weird vibes, but me and a collective of real humans ate that shit UUUUPP. I really feel like he's come though for me. Its a personal relationship he doesn't even know we have. I consider him a dear friend. And this album is proof of his consistency in our friendship. I look forward hearing this from cars driving though New York on a summer day. Nothing like that moment. Thanks for kicking off a good summer banger, friend. "At the end of the day I am an artist and this whole rap thing is fun to me." -Pusha T

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I started a music blog because Puerto Rican’s girls from NYC don’t write about music enough.

In a typical music discovery fashion, as a pre-teen, I disappeared into music when I was feeling the most troubled. It changed the room for me, it magically transformed everything around me or maybe it sent me to a whole other space entirely. Depends on perspective on that one. But it was, for certain, a departure from where I was or what I was dealing with. For a brief time music was a barometer for my social life. In college if defined my friendships with people I wouldn’t have made fast friends with in NYC. In my 20's, it made me shake it as often as I could, without a clue to how good my legs looked back then. In my 30’s it’s returned to its initial role, a departure from the moment, or from this hard knock life. And now I listen a bit deeper and keener maybe wiser? We've all been through a lot these last two years. As predicted, people are cranking out ARRRRRT hard these days. I don’t know but suddenly I have a lot to say about it all.