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I’ve been on a hip-hop kick lately. Specifically Kendrick Lamar.

Today I discovered, and now absolutely cannot get enough of, Cartoons & Cereal (feat. Gunplay).

Yes, I know I’m late (very late) to the party, but what a fucking song this is. The passages that begin with “Now I was raised in a sandbox” is unlike anything I’ve heard ion a long time; the childlike yet robotic vocals of Lamar and, I believe, Anna Wise, layered, ping-ponged on top of the horror soundtrack style synth and samples is otherworldly. And the way the I-I-I part in these sentences is stuttered adds a layer of, oh I don’t know what you’d call it. Unease? It’s definitely unsettling.

Yeah, I’m nerding out over this simply because I can’t think of anything to compare it to and I’ve had it on repeat all night.