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Chandra Kamaria's avatar

I really like how this whole piece is organized. The verse is dope too. You remind me of someone who's name is escaping me right now. I know most artists don't like to hear that 😂. I really like note #5. I didn't think about how rich men like to infantilize people & make themselves patriarchal perverts.

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Thank you Chandra 🙏🏽☺️, I really respect your heart and mind. I appreciate you dropping a line. And when you remember, please let me know! lol on Footnote 5, yeah yo, they be trying to straight up son people and act like that ain’t what they doing lol My first job out of undergrad and our supervisor would like to shush us when we was in a group meeting, I was like what the heck! lol

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Chandra Kamaria's avatar

Shush folks?? Nope. That's a no-no! 😂 As soon as I think of the rapper, I'll be sure to let you know.

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Yeah, smh, lol sounds good 🙏🏽

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Alias: Ivan Graham's avatar

Dope, as per usual! Go ahead and prepare that summer banger we waiting on!

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and now Miguel's avatar

Thank you!! Appreciate that fam. We making progress! got 2 out of 5 tracks mixed :)

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Robin Mo 💬's avatar

This Cortex sample is so sweeet. Wait it’s from the MF Doom one. Right. Right. Siiick.

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and now Miguel's avatar

🙏🏽, thanks for checking it out, glad you dig it!

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Robin Mo 💬's avatar

Keep it up! Love these raps man. Inspires me to do it too hete on Substack.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Fucking amazing. I don't know what you intended exactly, as I can't, you're the artist, I'm only interrogating the work. Once you let it out, you lose control of the perception of it. But... I heard this in DOOM's drawl and it made me smile.

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Emil, my guy, thank you for taking the time. I know you busy dude so I appreciate that sincerely. And, I’m truly happy it put a smile on your face. Let’s imagine together that DOOM is still with us here 🙏🏽. I got another verse in the same sort of theme. Happy to send it to you via DM. I’m sort of developing a story out of this— flying by the seat of my pants with this narrative I’m crafting, so let’s interrogate together! Lol

The post is did “Page made Magnus” is a lite tie into this joint too.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

I’d love to read that! Feel free to DM me. For sure.

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John Noire's avatar

Dope piece man. Appreciate the shoutout and digging the way you're weaving in real life, hip-hop and comic books similar to old-school Ta-Nehisi Coates. The footnotes is also a great post-modern touch 👌🏾

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Thank you John! I appreciate you taking the time to listen and sit with my work. thanks for giving the space and time to engage too. I got another joint that I wrote years ago that inspired the concept. I’ll share with you 👍🏽

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wildflower's avatar

This is great!!

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🙏🏽💚, thank you! Thank your for taking the time.

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Josh Datko's avatar

Very nice! I the multimedia approach is good. The audio, the images, the references, all great!

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Josh, thank you so much for taking the time to listen and I really appreciate your feedback on the audio quality 🙏🏽. I have another piece that I wrote years ago that ties to this one too, i’m about halfway through your recent post where you were talking about November 11 Veterans Day andArmistice Day. Very insightful stuff and I think there is some beautiful overlap. I’ll try and either share here soon or just send you a draft and some notes on what I’m thinking.

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Josh Datko's avatar

Thanks! I'm a big believer in just posting things, even half baked ideas :) You'll get some comments from people you didn't expect. But yes, I will very happy to read it!

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and now Miguel's avatar

Appreciate the encouragement! 🙏🏽💚 and thanks again for dropping by.

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ARC's avatar

fire piece bro...witty but still kinda kind hearted

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Thanks bro 🙏🏽💚, I appreciate you tuning in. On the kind hearted part, thanks fam. I think compassion for trauma wounds is important—even if you still got to use your sword on these fancy clowns. I like the light hearted tone despite all the pain ect. Again, thanks 🙏🏽

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