Rap music—an art form that turned fifty this year despite being pronounced dead many times over—supposedly died again on April 19, amid the ongoing contest of champions between Compton and Toronto’s respective favorite sons. The culprit was Drake (who, depending on who you ask, has committed this crime several times before). The murder weapon was “Taylor Made Freestyle,” a goofy and clunky but conceptually brilliant Kendrick Lamar diss in which Drake used AI as a literary device, borrowing the voices of both 2Pac and Snoop Dogg to “coach” Kendrick for nearly four minutes.
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