In a 1991 interview with Melody Maker, Chuck D of Public Enemy explained:
‘Can’t Truss It’ is about how the corporate world of today is just a different kind of slavery. We don’t control what we create. And because of the media, we don’t control the way we think or run our lives. We’ve got to limit working for a situation that’s other than ours. We have no ownership of anything. If you don’t own business, then you don’t have jobs. White people have jobs because they have business. They have institutions that teach them how to live in America. Black people don’t have institutions that teach them how to deal with s–t. The Number One institution that teaches you how to deal is the family, but slavery f–ked that up. So the song is about the ongoing cost of the holocaust. There was a Jewish holocaust, but there’s a black holocaust that people still choose to ignore."
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk. Raised in a poor Xhosa family, Biko grew up in Ginsberg township in the Eastern Cape. In 1966, he began studying medicine at the University of Natal, where he joined the National Union of South African Students. Strongly opposed to the apartheid system of racial segregation and white-minority rule in South Africa, Biko was frustrated that NUSAS and other anti-apartheid groups were dominated by white liberals, rather than by the blacks who were most affected by apartheid. He believed that well-intentioned white liberals failed to comprehend the black experience and often acted in a paternalistic manner.
“Coffin” was released unexpectedly on Yachty’s YouTube channel on October 1, 2020, as a music video. He posted the audio on his SoundCloud on the 3rd.
After the initial release, the song’s audio became a viral track on TikTok, which led to Yachty having the mastered version released on streaming services on the 24th.
On the 808-heavy banger, Yachty raps about his wealth and sexual prowess, notably proclaiming that he puts a girl in a “coffin” (puts her to sleep) during sexual intercourse.
Its fuck Drake all the way down but he is missing out on hitting hard on Kendricks support for abusers like Kodak Black XXXtentacion and RKelly. In that aspect there is not way Kendrick is not a hypocrite.
There is some nuance to the R Kelly thing. From what I understand the issue he had was that Spotify were delisting tracks from notable black abusers but not touching any of the white abuser backcatalogues. However, the nuance wouldn't really matter to make a good rebuttal in a track.
Drake sounds tired in this track tbh. Suspect this might be the last thing he releases.
He says the people who leaked the daughter thing are clowns, then proceeds to tell us he's so smart that he and his people leaked it. So Drake called himself a clown.
A good chunk of the song is based on a misunderstanding of Kendrick's Mother I Sober. Kendrick didn't say he was molested, he said that his mother asked him if he was and she didn't believe him when he told her no, because she was molested. Honestly, this makes Drake out to have no listening/reading comprehension and it makes him seem like he's scrubbing quickly through Kendrick's tracks trying to find ammo. It makes that whole chunk of the song fall flat.
Kendrick never said any names or anything regarding the pedophile allegations, yet here's Drake specifically bringing up Millie Bobby Brown and Bella Harris. The thing is when you put it all together there's a lot of evidence out there that's already known that lends credibility to Drake being a pedophile. Drake was texting Millie Bobby Brown when she was 14. He was hanging around Bella Harris when she was 17. He groped and kissed that one girl on stage and she was 17. You even have Tweets from Drake talking about (not an exact quote) "If amazing were underage I'd be in jail because I'm fucking amazing." What a weird thing to say. There's too much to mention here.
Drake says he planted the daughter stuff. Okay, let's see the receipts. He made a whole little video of him destroying the good kid, maad city van (wrong make and model, if I'm not mistaken) but there's no video of you supposedly cooking up this master plan to plant evidence? No screenshots of DMs? Nothing? Mighty convenient....
Let's say the daughter stuff is false. That removes
one verse out of the four tracks that Kendrick has put out. All the rest of the tracks are still totally relevant.
Whitney never followed Kendrick on social media. Talking about who is or isn't following you on social media is such a high school way of thinking about relationships. It just plays into everything Kendrick has been saying about Drake not being a man, about being a 7 year old.
Drake still hasn't denied running a sex trafficking ring.
The play on music chords was dumb. Kendrick was saying something that actually hit with his. Plus a B-sharp isn't a thing.
This track is a huge miss, for me. Take the L, Drake.
I’ll preface with, Drake lame. The B# thing is true. It’s just C. However, in a key signature you can see a B notated as sharp. Nobody would say B# tho. Kendrick’s Am line was genius.
I feel like people are missing the point of the daughter stuff being fed. It doesn't matter if it was 1 in 4 verses, it matters that Kendrick unintentionally lied.
As someone who doesn't follow the scene much, I am confused about one thing though. Does Drake not have a daughter, or is it just the information about the daughter was wrong?
No one knows the truth. They’ve even found the daughter’s profile and her mom as well. I’ve never believed Drake period so I’m definitely not starting now.
It's such a risky thing to double down on as Drake though. He knows ultra haters are going to do everything they can to dig up facts that point to the daughter being his, but he still claimed it wasn't. So for me, I'm gonna have to see serious proof before believing it
Yeah I don't really listen to Macklemore much. More of my partners thing, and like you, I listen to Doom, Kendrick, Tyler the Creator, old-school Kanye before he lost it, Wutang Biggie, etc. He rhymes pretty well and has some pretty sick raps. Seattle home town hero.
Macklemore has these conscious rap lyrics regularly on his albums somewhere between the more radio friendly songs. I mean they had "same love" back on The Heist album, "White Privilege II" on This Unruly Mess I’ve Made album and there probably are more than I can think of.
I have not followed him closely in recent years but I guess most of his music is still stylistically poppy which I personally am not a fan of.
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