I’d normally give my typical “parental advisory” for this hip hop song, but the lyrics are so difficult to understand I might not even need to bother. There’s something about the sound mixing and the artist’s voice that make the lyrics hard to hear, which is a shame because they’re pretty darn good from a technical standpoint. This song deals quite a bit with the emcece’s identity as a black gay man in New York, how he’s subject to fetishization and stereotyping. It’s too bad he got embarrassingly bitter over the success of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and started publicly accusing them of plagiarizing this song to make their hit “Thrift Shop,” even though the only things the two songs have in common are the presence of rapping and the presence of saxophone.
Note: Fortunately, there’s this helpful typography video in HD to make the lyrics easier to identify!
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Given the lyrical subject matter, the song reached surprising levels of mainstream exposure. You can check out how this song was used in a cool advertisement people were circulating not long ago:
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