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@somanyshrimp

2 years

dallas rap

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@LAHXLLUClNATlON

2 years

can u name a more thought-provoking, artistically-complex album cover than THIS ONE??? harry styles has a mind of a genius.

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@somanyshrimp

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This clip is so great lmao. He literally says “you had to go to dat piff dot com” and pronounces “Mane” correctly / effortlessly

XXL Magazine

@XXL

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Retired NASCAR driver Mark Martin is a huge Gucci Mane fan. 😭

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Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.

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this is the hardest song i have ever heard

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@somanyshrimp

8 months

If I told you there’s an album from 2002 with: MF Doom, The Deftones, A-Trak, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and the Beatnuts, that no one under the age of 35 has ever heard would you want to hear it

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

'gucci gucci' introduced uk bass slides to american rap music before pop smoke true or false

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

Is the world ready to admit the 1975 - “I like it when you sleep…” is one of the best albums of the 2010s

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@somanyshrimp

4 months

the website that publishes four reviews daily often of experimental and art music just got gutted and a bunch of podcast parasocial gossip addicts are excited for what this means about Poptimism, absolute morons

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

@dayv @dancow The term AI feels like some really over the top marketing if one can “use it wrong” lol

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@somanyshrimp

8 months

Got to be tough to engage with the world like you’re just supposed to door dash everything

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@garlictoes_

8 months

This record store im at is genuinely insane how the fuck am i supposed to find anything

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@somanyshrimp

2 months

why is this hard as fuck lmao

cantguardmee☄️💕👨🏾‍🦯++

@ihydj_

2 months

Huh?? Wtf is he on bout bru?

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@somanyshrimp

6 months

People get jobs in the music biz this way

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@JustBoysLaughin

6 months

I wish I had a kid that looked like this on retainer to follow me around and say “facts” when I talk to people

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@KruseControlOn born by the river

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@somanyshrimp

9 months

RIP pac man, the jacka, speaker knockerz, lil snupe, young pappy, la Capone, Fredo Santana, doe b, trouble, bankroll fresh, chinx, slim dunkin … just some names i haven’t seen much who contributed a lot

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2 years

wow theyre like the bad guys in a child's cartoon show about hip-hop

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@NYPD52Pct

2 years

Great job by our 5-2 Conditions Team who removed these illegal 🔊 from our #Bronx streets. #NYPDProtecting

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@somanyshrimp

4 months

Of all the things conde could have done w pitchfork why gq and not the New Yorker, which does news and criticism?

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

Is Glorilla's crew the new Wu Tang

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@somanyshrimp

4 months

This is a mental guardrail a lot of ppl make & assume to be true but our time on this earth is limited and the amount of bullshit music is not. But also, the audience of the critic is for people who like to read writing about music — not all music fans

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@bigsnugga

4 months

but i understand why the music critic went the way of the dodo. music critics used to basically tell you what albums were worth spending money on. in the streaming age there’s no risk involved in listening to a bad album. all you lose is a couple minutes of your time, not 20 bux

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15 days

g funk was one of the coolest sounds to ever become a musical cliche. I never tire of it lol. whats crazy is there was this period where that became the sound of bleakness, the way some might describe drill [general sense not new york sense] today

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1 year

An amusingly naive interpretation of The Weeknd’s early career

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

@JDVance1 Looking at your tweet

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@somanyshrimp

2 months

This take is so funny. “Stability” is the opposite of what the job in office space is about !

lol, lmao

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2 months

@ashleylynch So many late 90s films are about the absolute horrors of having a stable job. Matrix, fight club, office space, American beauty etc. It aged like fuckin milk

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@somanyshrimp

2 months

People are so dismissive of the end of these publications when they are like well kids on YouTube or tiktok blah blah blah… fuck man I’m a fan of WRITING what is not computing

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1 month

Real generation gap around offbeat rapping, strident formalists will never get it and that’s fine, but it’s music not homework assignments and the whole thing w art is you literally do not need to color in the lines, you’ll never ever win this argument saying otherwise

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@somanyshrimp

8 months

Here you go

daetrich

@daetrich

8 months

@somanyshrimp Yeah sorry I don’t have all year to comb through the goodwill record cache

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@somanyshrimp

8 months

Non Phixion - The CIA Is Trying To Kill Me

[Ill Bill]Non-Phixion be the real hip hopWe make you wanna kill copsCats hatin, 'cause they know I finga girls twatsYou feel helpless, real jealous, we kille...

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@somanyshrimp

4 months

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@somanyshrimp

9 months

Every day one of these posts trying to make it sound like it’s a problem with rap instead of the structures of the business in general

The Anonymous Nobody

@el_budget

9 months

Rap is stale as shit right now. There’s a lane for a star to come out of this if they’re original and make shit people enjoy because we got a whole lot of mid right now

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@somanyshrimp

6 months

the dream is to be so well regarded you can drop a flute album in your 40s and people will listen

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@somanyshrimp

6 months

This used to work. They really ruined facebook man

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

Everybody hates gatekeepers until they live without them

dash is watching satc (s4) • they/them

@thedigitaldash_

10 months

aren’t y’all tired of being fed bad music, bad clothes, bad films, bad shows? the movies are remakes, the clothes are poorly constructed, the music is uninspired, the performances are lazy, and none of us can escape ads. it feels like i’m losing my mind

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1 year

Can you believe someone left this foamposite bed on the street outside. I had my family clean it and move it into my apartment

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@rwxoxo

1 year

interior design is my passion

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

The resentment people have for critics is goofy. You already “won” you can consume as much content slop as you want without ever having to have a critical thought in your head

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@somanyshrimp

5 months

I genuinely think it’s crazy ppl don’t see Gucci as the obvious mixtape GOAT. Almost all original material, more prolific, hooks bars protégés consistency across 5 years … eating these guys alive. Imo

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@Billionairepolo

5 months

Let’s talk Hip Hop…My Mixtape Mount Rushmore…What is yours? Future• 50 Cent• Lil Wayne • Jeezy

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@somanyshrimp

8 months

This kind of shit in every area of life SUCKS

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@bandeauxx

8 months

LinkedIn is charging people who seek jobs a premium to cut to the front of the line😆😭

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3 months

how long do you suppose gq will trust pitchfork to operate like a site for real criticism lol

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2 months

It’s pretty sick that a living legend does dj mixes all the time and posts them

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2 years

Only the coolest music ever made …

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

absolutely incredible

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

It’s a very good thing they’re calling it after this season

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@nesplease

1 year

heyyyyy friendly reminder that if you’re a straight man, you’re not allowed to have an opinion on shiv roy or her actions. okay thank you!

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Middle aged ppl only answer this .. whats some shit you didn’t like when you were young and ostensibly cool but now you fuck with super hard … for me it’s prefab sprout … could not vibe with it at all, now they’re top 5 of the 80s to me

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10 months

She was a literal unknown four months ago. Kendrick Lamar sold 5k of section 80 its first week

Sweet James Junior 👑

@SweetJamesJr90

10 months

All the women who were defending her on Twitter and she only got 8 thousand records sold??

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Right wing money is really committed to the hip hop media bit

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this is blowing my mind

The Jacka's 'Million Miles' - Discover the Sample Source

"Million Miles" by The Jacka contains a sample of another song. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled.

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

@hamishmckenzie Question: are there any plans to put an irritating image of a dog in the upper left corner of Substack any time soon?

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

People don’t want to admit it because of who they are but the smashing pumpkins are way better than nine inch nails

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

It’s really crazy how quickly an entire world developed where this isn’t weird as hell

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

*rick rubin lying on the couch* so let’s talk ideas for this ice spice cover art

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The Blog Era Podcast

@theblogera

7 months

What’s your favorite ASAP Yams tweet?

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

@NYPD52Pct Is the bronx the town from footloose?

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

I’m on the popcast defending the concept of drill as a big tent notion of modern gangster rap rather than a sound mainly popular in New York & London

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@nytimesmusic

2 years

A decade of drill rap. Hear the Popcast.

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@somanyshrimp

11 months

Crazy, I wonder why it wasn’t bigger on Spotify in 1984

chart data

@chartdata

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Sade's "Smooth Operator" earns its biggest streaming day of all-time on Spotify, nearly 40 years after release (627K).

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11 months

I’m not sure you guys “get” ice spice …

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

When a lady raps about sex

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@somanyshrimp

2 months

I hate when captions tell me what the vibe of the music is. “[Eerie ethereal music playing].” Stop enforcing interpretations !!

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

Ten years … sad and happy at once

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@ASAPYams

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MY SLIME @somanyshrimp ATTENDED A CHIEF KEEF SHOW IN A FRESHLY PRESSED DRESS SHIRT PLZ SALUTE THAT MAN

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

Take brain

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

whats a good example of a random album you gravitated to, never heard people talk about much or celebrate, but then it survived your personal test of time & has remained a standby

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@somanyshrimp

8 months

We need to talk about the cover art of this era … this one is unironically fire

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@atrak

8 months

Yo I love all 4 of these rappers but this cover art is dusty as hell 😂😂😂

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@somanyshrimp

9 months

cupcakke was so ahead of her time

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@somanyshrimp

2 months

@jonahweiner Stevie wonder

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@somanyshrimp

6 months

It would be cool to learn what the young millennial / zoomer taste matrix would be like if they had to spend 17.99 on any cd

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@somanyshrimp

1 year

"which are also solid" when it comes to pushing a tech investment everyone decides they're a music critic lol

TMZ

@TMZ

1 year

Drake has more robot problems on his hands -- after his record label pulled the plug on one viral AI song that was using his voice ... two more, which are also solid, have cropped up.

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4 months

No one really talks about how he was into Aerosmith

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Kurt Cobain’s 50 favorite albums

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The less popping tinashe became the better her music got

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

I mean this neutrally, it has good and bad aspects: music seems like one area of the arts where literally everyone suspects they know better than everyone else

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@somanyshrimp

2 months

Ok but none of these sites employ writers

Spencer Salazar

@spencersalazar

2 months

Theres a large degree of fumbling the bag here, but—being completely honest with myself as a older millennial—the original audiences of these outlets are old and (statistically) have kids now. The successors to Vice, Pitchfork, etc. are on IG/YT/Tiktok & may not even have a .com

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2 months

Why haven’t zoomers rediscovered Atari teenage riot ? I feel like I should be seeing their music every time I open tiktok

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@somanyshrimp

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Typical early millennial - gen x interaction is like, hearing “pepper” by butthole surfers as a millennial and thinking this rules, and then finding out you’re wrong it actually Sucks

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@somanyshrimp

4 months

whats your favorite beatking shirt

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@somanyshrimp

7 months

Every tweet about teezo is like “I hate this but I support it”

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@Maynard29Jim @notgwendalupe Dumb ass tweet

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2 years

I miss her so much

Drake Motel

@drakemotel

2 years

My wonderful mom passed away on Saturday. She was a lifelong reader and a generous Vermonter, so we are asking for donations in her honor to the Brandon Free Public Library, a small-town library she took us to every week, and sometimes every day, when we were little.

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@somanyshrimp

11 months

Can someone please make a video essay on whatever the hell was going on here

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

House music on here is funny, ppl are basically like well it started in Chicago then daft punk, Calvin Harris, disclosure, kaytranada & retail outlets + shallow symbols of class aspirationalism (wine bars etc)

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2 years

I gotta come back to this. this is tumblr brain. pharrell produced dozens of hits and wrote hits and launched artists careers. that didn't happen bc the public's ear 'wasnt trash' it was because he wrote hits and changed the sound of popular music

Balibz

@Balibz

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If the public's ear didnt become so trash, Kaytranada wouldve easily been the Pharrell of the last 10 years

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9 months

It is funny the debate about if rap is good is between a 35 year old who just wants to hear nelly and a 24 year old who doesn’t understand why you wouldn’t want 16 different micro iterations of Earl sweatshirt

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10 months

It was better when the internet was something only a tier of nerds did and there were normal ppl in the real world who kind of ignored it and did things the old way. You guys missed out

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

Some fans claim Aladdin 3: Aladdin and the King of Thieves derived wholly from Aladdin. That’s inaccurate. Aladdin 2: The Return of Jafar massively influenced Aladdin 3 as well.

Juwon Park 🌊

@juwonreports

2 years

Some fans claim K-pop has derived wholly from black music. That is inaccurate. J-pop has massively influenced K-pop as well.

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4 months

The Viper fandom was cringe before he turned out to be a psycho too

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

People debating whether an act is an industry plant or not, whether the artist or label is responsible for their success, et al, would be better off just listening to the music and thinking “do I like this or not” instead of worrying about how much “credit” everyone involved gets

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@somanyshrimp

3 months

I know Donald Glover used the “rap entourage” pitch to make Real Art with Atlanta but I still think a SoundCloud era rap entourage would have been fun show

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@somanyshrimp

7 months

They really write sosa out of history on these shits

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@somanyshrimp

11 months

fascinating moment in growing old is reading tweets that dont take for granted that we all know this exists

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@somanyshrimp

4 months

this is just something people repeat ad nauseam while reading zero music journalism get real

Dr. Aaron, PhD

@aaronposting

4 months

This is just spot on

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Referencing guwop became a cheap n easy cred burnishing thing so it’s important to recognize the Real Fans 🫡

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@somanyshrimp

4 months

When Carti’s album sells really well how’s that going to fit into all the hip hop is dead rhetoric

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@somanyshrimp

9 months

@ambercrollo “It’s not that serious” — gen z when someone pins them w entirely correct observation

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

whosampled's conflation of interpolation and sample is pretty irritating

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@somanyshrimp

2 years

Every time people talk about Ezra miller I think they’re talking about the vampire weekend guy

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@somanyshrimp

10 months

re: antonoff and also rick rubin, i think ppl have trouble, post-hip-hop, wrapping their heads around a 'producer' who does not literally 'make beats' for the artist

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