Hip-hop and homestuck

[infiniteandsmall]

I’ve finally gotten around to listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, m.a.A.D City,” and I really like it. Great beats and I love his rapping style, especially when it’s higher and more nasal like on “m.a.A.D. City” (the song). It took me a few listens to get used to, but a lot of my favorite artists have unusual voices that I didn’t like at first.

I also love how the album is structured like a memoir, and how it has an almost film-like quality. The subtitle is “a short film by Kendrick Lamar,” and that’s super accurate, because a lot of it is told in snapshots and memories of moments that add together into a story.

 

Also, I am SO EXCITED for Angel Haze’s “Dirty Gold.” The versions of “No Bueno,” “Initiation,” and “A Tribe Called Red” aren’t even the final cuts, and they are SO GOOD I CAN’T EVEN. This is like waiting for FLAG all over again (okay, not that intense). Also, she was "bored" and rapped over the beat of "New Slaves," and it's literally amazing? Like, this is what happens when you are bored? When I'm bored I reread fics for the tenth time? How are you so great? Like how half of John Darnielle's songs don't make it onto one of his albums when they're something I'd wave in everyone's face like I WROTE THIS ISN'T IT FUCKING AWESOME if I wrote them? I don't understand how this happens.

 

Still working on my “Glee” WIP. There are wings, it is becoming wingfic, and there is eldritch city that I thought of before I’d even heard Nightvale, and I don’t want to finish Nightvale because I don’t want be unconsciously borrowing anything.

I also have an idea for a Rose/Kanaya fic in which Rose is a Potterhead and Kanaya is a Twihard (kind of) and they meet after Kanaya does some trolling and become friends. Then romance happens. I have some scenes planned out and I basically can’t with them because they are so cute. I’m still having a hard time with Kanaya’s voice/characterization though (new fandom problems?).