Personally, electro-rap is better the dirtier trashier grimier scankier more in need of penicilin it is. I am a dirty rat who appreciates dirty music, when done right. For that, “I Think I Love You” is great. There’s other tracks I appreciate – “Stolen Power” for sure – but there’s a fair amount of verses where the rappers don’t sound all that comfortable on the beats. I’m curious to see if they keep refining this sound or try something else.

On a somewhat related note, I took a film class a couple years ago and read about how subtitles turn good films into overseas masterpieces eg apparently “The Seventh Seal” got trashed by Swedish critics because the dialogue was archaic and sounded corny, but an English-language audience wouldn’t get that, all they see is the story spelled out plainly for them. Could I make an argument that something similar is going on here, with imported music whose appeal is heavily on the accents? Like because we can’t quite understand what they’re spitting, it sounds that much doper than it probably really is?

Eh, fuck it. If I agree to that then I have to say 95% of the Southern rap I bump enthusiastically is, when weighted by accent, not as dope as any number of boring Golden Age revivalists who say things very clearly, and you know I won’t do that.

This tune is pretty big.