Im In The Oussy Like Google Chrome The Way Im Tracking Interests In Order To Deliver U The Best Experience Possible Lowkey Im Doing Some Other Shit On The Side Tho Lol Hope That Aint An Issue
on the topic of Death Grips, i remember wayyy back when Exmilitary was their only release and someone on /mu/ discovered a flyer for a local art exhibit that listed MC Ride (under his real name) as one of the artists, and everyone was shocked for some reason, like they thought he was just a funny yelling man who hollers things into a mic and then goes and waits in a cave to record his next song. as if Death Grips’ music isn’t art, and MC Ride isn’t an artist. at the time i chalked it up to garden-variety 4chan racism, but seeing that same attitude echoed over a decade (oh my fucking god im so OLD) later by tiktok zoomers tells me it’s more insiduous than that. i don’t think a lot of the people throwing shit at him on stage would consider themselves racist if you asked them directly (unlike the people from /mu/), and yet there they are, treating a black musician’s existence like a joke
if i were a woman, i would tweet “ginger snapped so jennifer could body”, but i’m not a woman, and i don’t use twitter, and i haven’t seen jennifer’s body, and i don’t make a lot of money or have a car or look nice
and i don’t dress well or know how to tie any knots besides the regular one you tie your shoes with. my taste in music is lacking and i need a haircut
part of why i recognize little to no difference between so-called “recreational” vs “medical” drug use is because i recognize stress as a medical issue. mind-body dualism has us all convinced that stress is an ephemeral emotion that doesn’t affect our bodies, but like daily stress, particularly if you’re also disabled in some way, just Will Kill You. it can destroy your organs, overclock your brain, weaken your immune system… the effects of prolonged and consistent stress are underresearched (because then we’d have to question how we allocate labor. lmao), but they’re there. if you use weed every day for no reason other than you need to force yourself to relax chemically so you can have fun and take your mind off stress, that is indistinguishable from medical use to me, having discarded mind-body dualism.
