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i, too, would shout to a crowd of reporters “That’s completely out of touch, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people”

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« As the suspect was led into the courthouse for his hearing, he shouted to reporters crowded outside, saying, “That’s completely out of touch, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.” It wasn’t clear in the moment what he was referring to, as deputies struggled to push him inside. » oh, to be a journalist

@packetcat i'm not sure it entirely works; i think kendrick maybe went a little too experimental with DAMN and it doesn't entirely line up, but the opening track definitely hits different when you hear it as the closer

@packetcat if you haven't yet listened to the collector's edition (which is exactly the same but with the reverse ordering) you should

@packetcat some hints:

• the album can be played forwards or backwards (in terms of track order) to visit two different directions that kendrick’s life could have gone

• the tracks alternate, with odd tracks (standard ordering) representing vices and even tracks representing virtues. this is a continuation of the themes of battling temptation (Luci) found in TPAB; kendrick is grappling with both sides of his nature as he attempts to chart a course for his life

• after TPAB, which was about looking outward, metamorphosizing, and returning home, DAMN. is looking inward, questioning how much control he really had over that process, and wondering how much change really occurred

*mustard voice* LUIIIIIGGGIIIIIIIII

@aescling @coriander and i think it’s easy to argue that paralinguistic cues are signalled along a different axis than syntactic structures so it is multidimensional in that sense too

@aescling @coriander “linear” in the sense of having a one-dimensional serialization but not in the sense of that one dimension being perceived linearly with time; reading often involves a lot of jumping and backfilling

which will be referenced more times in rap music in 2025?

@djsundog in my mind it’s like sysadmining where they rate you not on how good you are but on how little you inconvenience them

time to educate the good people of new york about “jury nullification”

my girlfriend claims to be a cat not a dog but sometimes she does little woofs in her sleep 🐶

woke up early and successfully did the thing i woke up early for

how much of your energies are directed at reality? how much at spectacle?

can’t tell if i’m picking up mannerisms from girlfriends mom or if i’ve just always been kind of like this

healthcare ceo guy met the ghost of christmas future and was like “i don’t believe in ghosts”

slack if your update doesn’t contain anything then why are you updating

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