(AllHipHop News) Freddie Gibbs is the latest artist to take part in the Ctrl live sessions. The Indiana nativejoins Rick Ross, Common, Rapsody, Fat Joe, Jeezy, Jadakiss, and other rappers who have performed for the series inside Vevo’s Brooklyn studio.
The latest edition of Ctrl features the Midwesterner running through “Cataracts” and “Soul Right.” Both songs live on 2019’s Bandana album which was presented as a collaborative studio LP by Freddie Gibbs and record producer Madlib.
Bandana received widespread critical acclaim upon its release. The project earned an 88/100 score on Metacritic from professional music reviewers. It also netted an 8.6/10 user score on the site.
(AllHipHop News) It appears the coronavirus pandemic will cause people to undertake social distancing for the near future. While at home, viewers can entertain themselves this weekend by watching performances from last year’s Jeddah World Fest.
AXS TV is scheduled to broadcast the star-studded concert on Sunday, April 5 at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT. The event was filmed live at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah International Stadium on July 18, 2019.
Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Janet Jackson ran through classic records such as “All For You” and “Rhythm Nation.” The lineup also included southern rhymer Future and West Coast rapper Tyga. Former One Direction member Liam Payne and EDM deejay Steve Aoki hit the stage as well.
“Jeddah World Fest was a truly historic occasion in more ways than one,” said Anthony Cicione, General Manager of AXS TV. “The evening puts the spotlight on some of the biggest names in music, coming together to entertain a sold-out crowd with powerhouse sets featuring their most enduring hits.”
Cicione adds, “This is a must-see event for dedicated music aficionados, and AXS TV is proud to give viewers the best seat in the house as we bring this incredible special to the U.S. for the first time ever.”
There were complaints about American artists choosing to perform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Muslim nation has faced criticism from international organizations over gender segregation, LGBT discrimination, lack of political freedom, and other human rights violations.
Nicki Minaj pulled out of the Jeddah World Fest in 2019. The NYC-bred emcee said she decided to skip the gig after “better educating” herself on the issues. The Human Rights Foundation praised Minaj for withdrawing from the concert.
(AllHipHop News) In 2016, Ebro Darden nearly p##### off an entire generation of rap fans when he tried to get Lil Uzi Vert to rap over the “Mass Appeal” beat off Gang Starr’s 1994 album Hard to Earn. It looks like the Hot 97 host is now taking some credit for Uzi’s current success.
So glad I pressed Uzi Vert 4yrs ago… He proved me wrong! Exactly what I love…
Hope more artists do the same when I question your talent or skills.
“So glad I pressed Uzi Vert 4yrs ago… He proved me wrong! Exactly what I love… Hope more artists do the same when I question your talent or skills,” tweeted Ebro on Monday morning.
The 45-year-old radio personality’s message came not long after Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake was officially named the #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. Apparently, supporters of the Philadelphia rhymer had a problem with Ebro’s tweet.
However, Uzi took to Instagram to instruct his fans to leave Darden alone. The rap star told his followers, “Stop saying ‘f*ck Ebro’ too. Stop saying that. He just old! He ain’t know no better. He old… I ain’t know no better back then. Only thing I knew is they was old!”
Ebro responded to Uzi’s suggestion that he is out of touch with Gen Z by posting five emojis. Additionally, there is a sense of irony to a 25-year-old Lil Uzi Vert currently calling Darden old because in 2017 he tweeted, “If you 25 and up you a old n*gga point blank.”
(AllHipHop News) The YouTube web series Hot Ones has spawned some classic memes featuring clips of Shaquille O’Neal, Idris Elba, and Paul Rudd. The Sean Evans-hosted spicy chicken wings program took it a step further after Big Sean’s episode.
At one point, Evans asked the Detroit-raised emcee what he would do if given the chance to run an entertainment media company. Big Sean eventually told Evans, “You f*ck with Hip Hop for real. You know what you’re talking about. Bro, let’s start a site. SeanSean.org.”
Well, Hot Ones actually took Big Sean up on his offer of setting up a website inspired by the two men with the same first name. SeanSean.org is now live with downloadable gifs of the First We Feast personality and the “Bounce Back” hitmaker.
Big Sean is currently working on his fifth studio album tentatively titled Detroit II. The forthcoming LP is set to be a sequel to the Def Jam recording artist’s well-received Detroit mixtape which came out in 2012. Last year, Big Sean dropped the songs “Overtime,” “Single Again,” and “Bezerk” (featuring ASAP Ferg and Hit-Boy).
(AllHipHop News) According to reports, the Internal Revenue Service is no longer seeking back taxes from Rick Ross. Apparently, the Miami-bred rapper settled a $1.5 million bill with the government agency.
An article by The Blast claimed Ross (born William Leonard Roberts II) owed a total of $1,548,401.58 in back taxes for 2014 and 2016. The Federal Tax lien broke down to $254,341 for ’14 and $1,294,059 for ’16.
Unfortunately, Roberts has a history of having issues with the IRS. He had to pay over a total of $1 million in back taxes for 2013 ($576,441.53) and 2014 ($570,700.24).
The MMG founder also had a $4.6 million federal tax lien for his 2012 taxes. In 2018, he paid $5,764,512.63 to the IRS. Ross appears to no longer have any tax liens filed against him.
Meanwhile, Rick Ross is showing off his 2020 Maybach S650 on Instagram. The vehicle costs around $200,000. His 11 million IG followers also got to see The Boss celebrate his daughter’s 18th birthday with various expensive gifts.
(AllHipHop News) Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye currently has the#1 song and #1 album on the US iTunes charts. The latter accomplishment came after the release of his After Hours albumovernight.
After Hours is also trending at #1 on Twitter in America. The project is The Weeknd’s fourth studio LP following 2013’s Kiss Land, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, and 2016’s Starboy.
At the moment, “Blinding Lights” is the most popular track off After Hours. It sits atop the iTunes chart and maintains a Top 5 position on Spotify’s Top 200 U.S. chart. On Wednesday, After Hours broke Apple Music’s all-time pre-add record with almost 1 million album pre-adds prior to its release.
Plus, The Weeknd teamed with Postmates for The Receiptblog series which highlights the singer’s order history. As a special edition of The Receipt, Postmates will donate funds to the United Nations Foundation COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund in support of health workers and accelerate research/development of vaccines and therapeutics.
(AllHipHop News) Maybe Tekashi 6ix9ine is not as innocent as he appears.
The colorful haired snitch tried to make the courts think that he was squeaky clean, and all of the dirty down low rotten stuff that was happening around him was because of the Nine Trey Gangsta Blood folk he was running with… but hold up wait a minute.
Shane Hardy, aka Snow Billy, a former friend of 6ix9ine, is suing him.
He claims that in 2018, he and the rapper were cool but had stopped being down because of his new affiliation with the Nine Trey Bloods.
And that’s when he suspected things got ugly and his old buddy wanted to get him murked.
The rapper’s attorney Dawn Florio told TMZ “Daniel never testified under oath that he directed Aaron Young or Jamel Jones to shoot Shane Hardy. Daniel was never charged in that shooting and he does not know Aaron Young.”
Still, Hardy claims that on the late evening of Friday, January 19, Young and Jones both shot at him while he was in Brooklyn, striking him in the back of his head and neck.
Hardy miraculously survived. And while he is alive to see another day, he did suffer “serious physical injury and great humiliation.”
Shane is suing Yong, Jones, and Snitch9ine for the damages.
Young and Jones are already locked up because of the aforementioned racketeering case.
However, in new court documents Priscilla Rainey says Game is still ducking payments by using shell companies and now she’s filed an emergency motion to get at the profits from his latest album, Born To Rap.
Rainey claims Game released Born To Rap under an independent label called Prolific Records, using a shell company called LA Prolific to deliberately divert revenues from Rainey.
Now, Rainey is seeking the “assignment of any and all rights, title and interest of Judgment Debtor in any money, property, or payments due Judgment Debtor from LA Prolific in the form of, among other things, commission, royalties, contract receivables, deferred compensation, income, wages, payroll, salary, accounts receivable.
Rainey also believes there’s a lot more money due to Rainey from LA Prolific to Game in the future, if she can find the cash.
According to Rainey, she has been the “victim of Taylor’s outlaw mentality, and his actions have irreparably prejudiced Rainey by depriving her of her right to recovery.”
So far, Priscilla Rainey has only been able to collect $47,674, or .6%, over the past three years.
(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop, Croissants and the Eiffel Tower don’t seem like they go together but one writer makes it clear that they do.
One of the architects of Hip-Hop journalism, Miles Marshall Lewis has traveled the world in search of a funky beat and a slick lyric.
During his travels fell in love with France. So many things about the French caught his attention, but it was also the flourishing rap culture that stole his heart.
So much so, homeboy packed up and moved there, diving pen first, all the way in there. It is here where the foundation of his new documentary starts.
“Radical: The Savoir Faire of French Hip-Hop”is about French Hip-Hop told through the pages of the Paris-based rap magazine Radikal, which he became acquainted with more than 20-years-ago.
Miles Marshall Lewis gives voice to the need for such a doc and why he chose to take on the task as its principal director/ producer.
“There are so many documentaries about different slices of Hip-Hop history. I decided to be different and tell the French version through a Paris-based rap magazine,” Miles Marshall Lewis said.
With a resume that includes stints at some of Hip-Hop’s most trusted outlets, Lewis is a perfect person to shape the story… or support the story in shaping itself.
The writer in him took full advantage of his American byline to help him gain access to some cross-cultural exchanges in this country and he started to film what he saw.
Lewis learned that French rap goes at least as far back as 1982 when Fab 5 Freddy’s “Change the Beat” B-Side was popping, and a magazine like Radikal had its roots in the same American Hip-Hop media that started his career
“France has the second biggest market for Hip-Hop music in the world.,” noted Lewis, explaining that the music has been popping over there.
“Because so many African countries were colonized by the French, a lot of urban African worldviews are expressed through French rap music. A style called Afrotrap began in Paris by a rapper named MHD, and it draws on the Afrobeats genre that’s hot all around the world right now,” Miles Marshall Lewis said.
Trust and believe that the documentary will be fire, and you as a lover of the culture have the opportunity to be a part of its production.
According to Miles Marshall Lewis, he wants to make sure that the level of excellence that is all over the work is maintained — all the way to the end.
(AllHipHop News) Cardi B has promised to donate her royalties from a single that samples her rant about the coronavirus to those hardest hit by the pandemic.
The star took to Instagram last week to express her fears about the disease, as the number of cases in the U.S. grew.
Cardi and iMarkkeyz have now pledged to donate their share of the profits from the track to those suffering financial hardship due to the outbreak, which has resulted in the shutdown of businesses including restaurants and bars.
YES !THATS WHAT WE GOING TO DO ! Keep in mind you don’t get your money right away …but even months from now there would be families with financial issues for getting laid off due to the virus .We will Donate ! https://t.co/ehAo8TCUhN
“YES !THATS WHAT WE GOING TO DO ! Keep in mind you don’t get your money right away…but even months from now there would be families with financial issues for getting laid off due to the virus .We will Donate !” Cardi wrote, quoting iMarkkeyz’ own tweet promising a followers he’d share the profits.
The “Bodak Yellow” hitmaker has given the remix her blessing, retweeting fans’ videos of themselves dancing to the track, and excitedly monitoring its chart progress, as it reached number nine in America on Tuesday.
“I might (as) well do a damn music video,” Cardi tweeted, before adding, “I’m boutta tell Atlantic (her record label) to put this song on Spotify.”
Explaining she was in discussion about gaining royalties, she also wrote: “The fact this damn coronavirus song is charting on iTunes….Hold on ..let me hit the Dj up and Atlantic so I can’t get my damn coins.”
It has also charted with iTunes in 30 countries across the world, providing fans with light relief during a global pandemic that is forcing many to stay in their homes to avoid spreading the disease.
(AllHipHop Music) The concept behind the song and video is all things presidential living in an Arab Money type way. On a different level than flossing cash, the theme is about making actual boss business “Nipsey Hussle” moves. The artist, Ali, has been making music since age 15. The emcee has won rap battles in his Detroit hometown. Beyond music, Ali has established himself as a successful entrepreneur. Additionally, he’s not just a rap artist, he’s also a vocalist and writer. His lane is R&B, Pop, and Rap. He’s self-made to the fullest, down to managing himself. He’s been cosigned by DJ Akademiks and has appeared on Hollywood Unlocked. Noted collaborations include his work with award-winning producers, Cool N’ Dre. A full body of work (EP) is expected soon, “Presidential” is just the tip of the iceberg.
It seems like she is following after her sister, who posted a prediction from a psychic that seems to have foreseen this all along.
The post that Kim shared from Sylvia Brown in 2008 said:
“In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes, resisting all known treatments.”
“Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear.” WELL WE HOPE THIS PREDICTION IS TRUE.
Kourtney (with a K) did not cling to the occult but stuck to her traditional Christian beliefs. She (borrowing from Thug) asked people to zero in on 2 Chronicles 7:13 -14.
As reported by Allhiphop.com, T.I. was another rapper who turned to faith, stating that people should turn to prayer instead of panic.
In his post he said, “This too should pass” which is a phrase used over 120 times in the bible.
(AllHipHop News) Will Smith joked that his movie ‘I Am Legend’ is responsible for “a lot of the misinformation” surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
The 51-year-old actor discussed the health crisis on the latest installment of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk,” along with their daughter Willow, Will’s son Trey, and Jada’s mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones.
During the chat, he quipped he felt the current situation reflects the post-apocalyptic action film, about a scientist who is the last human survivor of a plague, with Will’s character seeking to reverse the effects of the virus by using his own immune blood.
“‘I wanted to do this because in 2008 I made ‘I Am Legend,’ and I feel responsible for a lot of the misinformation,” Will Smith said before the family discussed the virus.
Jada explained: “Just like other families around the world, we are trying to navigate all the information out there about Covid-19,” as she revealed their 21-year-old son Jaden was absent from the discussion, “because he’s being a responsible human and social distancing.”
She added: “He’s been doing a lot of traveling and his main concern has been about Gammy (Adrienne), so he has decided to stay indoors and he’s actually following orders.”
Teasing the episode on her Twitter page, Jada wrote that the family were hoping to “get some questions answered” about the disease on their show.
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 227,700 cases globally, resulting in a death toll of more than 9,300, as of Thursday (March 19th).
(Drip Boyz) Future, VAIN, and St. Laz are out with a Hott new track called “ByeHo” and a #ByeHoChallenge Dance Competition that has caught fire!! DJ’s across the U.S. and around the World are Cutting, Scratching and Bringing the TrackBack Again and Again!! Dancers from around the World are Challenging one another on Social Media to a #ByeHoChallenge Dance Competition!!
Don’t miss the #ByeHoChallenge Remix Video below which features some of the Best Hip Hop Dancers from the USA’s East Coast to the West Coast, along with dancers from countries around the world such as Nigeria, England, and Germany to name a few!!!
DJ Fatfingaz has gotten into the “ByeHo Craze and you can see him cutting it up on the wheels of steel. Comedian Ken Starz and his Comedic Crew along with Comedian Billionaireth are cutting up too in the way only they can do!!
If you’ve got the Juice or the Moves or you know someone that does you can enter the Dance Competition yourself or enter a friend by uploading a Dance Video to #ByehoChallenge and #ByeHo on Instagram and DM @itsVain. Upload your video on Tik Tok as well!! The Best Dancers will be featured on the Top Hip Hop Sites!
“ByeHo” will surely play out to be one of VAIN’s and St. Laz’s most Infamous Collaborations yet, as they feature the prolific wordplay of FUTURE!!! “ByeHo,” by FUTURE ft VAIN and ST.
LAZ is that Banga all the DJ’s from around the Globe are Spinning and Adding to their Tracklists on Radio, in Clubs, Mixtapes and Mixshows!! “ “ByeHo,” is Available Now on SPOTIFY, APPLE ITUNES MUSIC, and All Music Platforms!!!
Don’t miss this Exclusive #ByeHoChallenge Dance Competition Remix Video Below! I have no doubt it will bring a smile to your face!!!
(AllHipHop Rumors) Cardi B is one of the biggest names in Hip-Hop and she’s FILTHY RICH. Shout out to DJ iMarkkeyz, who made a hit song based on a simple IG post the Bronx rapper made about the coronavirus.
You may have heard the song. I know I have been dancing to that song to the point where it had my bloated body winded.
This is far too funny. Anyway, the song has risen up the charts and money is being made, largely off her name. “The fact that this damn coronavirus song is charting on iTunes. Hold on … let me hit the DJ up and [her record label] Atlantic so I can get my damn coins,” she said online. Damn I posted the iTunes chart 2 hours ago of this damn Corona song charting on the hip hop charts at 96 now it’s number 11, 86 on the overall charts ..I’m glad y’al having fun …..Make sure you lysol your p***y before you POP IT.”
(AllHipHop News) Nicki Minaj’s record label bosses are congratulating the “Anaconda” hitmaker after naming her the wealthiest female rapper of all time.
Her Young Money mentors claim Nicki Minaj’s net worth has sailed past the $100 million mark, and they celebrated with a tweet on the label’s official account.
“There’s Only One Year Left!” – Busta Rhymes on Extinction Level Event (1998)
(AllHipHop Features) I sent one email. No response. I sent another message. No response. One more correspondence, but by then, I knew what was going to happen. Minutes later, I received a notice that the listening session for the long-destined, highly-anticipated debut from Jay Electronica was canceled. Coronavirus had claimed another victim and was an unwitting character in the perpetual enigmatic saga of Jay-Z’s close comrade. The irony is in 2009, on his hit song “Exhibit C,” the rhymester said, “Trying to find the meaning of life in a Corona.”
The coronavirus, the international pandemic also known as COVID-19, has swept the world causing fear, panic and dominated headlines news, social media, and governmental attention worldwide. Unlike its cousins H1N1 (another pandemic), Swine Flu, Bird Flu, the coronavirus has a higher death rate than the common flu (1% fatality rate and the seasonal flu’s 0.1% fatality rate).
The National Review broke down the ever-changing math: “If 40 million Americans get the seasonal flu, a 0.1% fatality rate means 40,000 deaths. If 40 million Americans get the new coronavirus, a 1% fatality rate means 400,000 deaths.” The numbers are staggering and the fatalities are increasing. Some have suggested that the fatality will soar to 2% or 3%, but the number has recently come down to roughly 1.4%.
Hip-Hop, a relatively young culture, has been a beacon of truth and hope for a consistent, lengthy time, for better or worse, with the truth-tellers often being considered mad until their once-weird premonitions came true. As the Golden Era came to a close, and the world crept up to the year 2000, songs that predicted the end of days became more and more prominent.
On “Judgement Day,” Method Man rapped, “First there was the collapse of civilization / Anarchy, genocide, starvation / Then when it seemed like s### couldn’t get any more f##### up / We got the plague / The living death / Closing his icy grip around the whole planet.” Scary stuff.
Busta Rhymes opened his seminal album Extinction Level Event
The Final World Front with a bone-chilling conversation with a father and daughter.
Daughter: Daddy, what’s it gonna be like in the year 2000?
Father: Well sweetheart, for your sake I hope it’ll all be peaches & cream.
But I’m afraid the end time is near. The cataclysmic apocalypse referred to in the scriptures of every holy book known to mankind. It will be an Era fraught with boundless greed & corruption. Where global monetary systems disintegrate, leaving brother to kill brother for a grain of overcooked rice. The nations of the civilized world will collapse under the impressive weight of parasitic political conspiracies which remove all hope & optimism from their once faithful citizens. Around the globe, generations of polluters will be punished for their sins…
Growing up in this 90’s era, it was apparent to myself and my peers that we needed to be ready for the end of the world, the chaos, the disease, and we stocked up on all sorts of goods and even raided military surplus stores. However, the old adage, “Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready” continued to echo through the years. COVID-19 is glaringly special even though coronavirus is not new.
The plight of the downtrodden, more specifically Black and Brown people, is older than Methuselah, to quote my grandmother, and these indigent circumstances are often business as usual. However, with coronavirus pandemic, our global connectivity is underscored. So there is a connection to the hundreds of thousands homeless in California to the 1% of the extremely wealthy. Everybody has a role to play.
Rap has always been ahead of the curve, forcing society to look at its ugly face, even though Hip-Hop music doubles as a form of entertainment and business. Our preparedness is certainly questionable, but our insight is not. Hip-Hop has discussed these dank, apocalyptic themes for decades. A video between Wu-Tang Clan and Onyx, appropriately themed “The Worst” (1998), visually depicts a Dystopian world where humans eat in the streets right next to pigs, which leads to men chowing down in revulsing restaurants, suggesting a sick environmental ecosystem. Seeing an arm-less Method Man of Wu-Tang drive with Onyx’s Sticky Fingaz on his car’s hood adds to the mania. Fun aside, this creative mini-movie was set in the year 2090.
One insider, that works in the infectious disease industry, told AllHipHop the truth from his perspective.
“Black people are not prepared and we knew this day was coming,” he said under the guise of anonymity. “But it is not really a race thing. Its a rich or poor thing. By the way, they have the meds to stop COVID-19. Now, will the poor be able to get the meds?” Australian and Japanese researchers maintain they already have a cure for COVID-19 and plan to roll it out soon following clinical testing. Stateside, Seattle and other places have started tests, but say their “cure” won’t reach the market until next year.
Contextually speaking, Hip-Hop’s views and opinions are firmly rooted in history. Slavery resulted in a fundamental mistrust of the law, as slave catchers evolved into the modern industrial prison system. The medical industry has roots in experimentation like the Tuskeegee Experiment (Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male) and more. For example, Medical Apartheid is a book that chronicles “the full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.” And this doesn’t even account for anti-vaxxers, which seem to be unified across racial lines.
Moving past historical facts and conspiracy theories, pandemics go back to the dawn of humankind or modern antiquity like the influenza pandemic of 1918 or more sinister acts such as when the Pilgrims “gifted” the Indigenous natives of North America with smallpox, kickstarting genocide. According to most accounts, this incarnation of the coronavirus started in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, but many theories have arisen, including unverified concepts that the virus is a man-made biological weapon. For Hip-Hop, nothing is off the table.
Today, pandemic-laden lyrics, New World Order notions, depopulation agendas and visions of an imploding civilization are regulated (or unregulated) to social media, message boards and individuals that have been able to amass a following. Rappers tend to have witty bars though. Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler The Creator trade bars on a song on a 2010 song titled “AssMilk”: “Flow is anthemic, dirty like it’s plants in it /Sick, spit a pandemic, crack and cancer mixed with cannabis.” Childish Gambino rapped, “Ill pandemic, man that s### be everywhere /Midas is your highness and you Haribo like Gummi bears.” Killarmy’s Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, they are not. Times have changed, but the sentiments are in the DNA.
Hip-Hop in 2020 hasn’t been particularly responsible or insightful when dealing with the sensitivity of the coronavirus. There are the memes and even hit songs like DJ iMarkkeyz’s Cardi B-assisted banger. Then there are Meek Mill’s inappropriate comments about North Korea, but Vanessa Hudgens was also chided for her insensitive comments about COVID-19. On the brighter side, Lecrae has committed to helping the homeless by setting up portable hand washing stations around Atlanta. Hip-Hop Hooray.
Right now, as I sit self-quarantined, quite prepared (or so I believe), I am resigned to my thoughts. It is like the raps songs that we used to listen to and the movies we enjoyed have come true. This is real life, and real now. People are dying, folks are breaking down mentally and confusion is all around us. To make matters worse, there are far too many social media experts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram vying for views and likes.
Sure, we wanted that J. Cole/Dreamville festival or Rhymesayers Entertainment tour (Brother Ali, Sa-Roc, deM atlaS and Nikki Jean) or that Lauryn Hill show or Quavo’s celebrity flag football game, but this is serious. And yet…we have been here before. Maybe? To loosely paraphrase, philosopher Franz Fanon, hell to some is the daily struggle for others.
Finally, I have to thank rap music for setting my brain in the right, mentally preparing me for this wretched coronavirusand finally giving me a reason to put on an industrial gas mask from the 90s.
