Tag: Trap

• Please don’t kill my vibe

  *Cues Bryson Tiller, “Aye, I’m back and I’m better,”  Ok, don’t.  Recap: Last post, existential crisis, meets irrational violence, meets internalized misogyny, meets mumble rap, meets my ears and I’m wondering why I like trap music so much. So I reflected, I asked my friends and family to weigh-in and I’m ready to share! “So can…

  Kalen Nicole

  January 31, 2019

  Art, Assimilation, Growing Up, Young Adult

  Angst, communication, Community, conversation, culture, Experience, Family, Feminism, Friends, Friendship, J.Cole, Kendrick, Learning, Life, Lyrics, Meaning, Migos, music, Others, Philosophy, pictures, Psychology, Purpose, Rap, relationships, Self, Trap, Understanding, United States, Writing

• “See me, I ain’t nothing nice” but I am.

  “See me, I ain’t nothing nice,” is a moment of voiced self-awareness, intended to convey the propensity of the artist to engage in physical altercation should conflict arise. The voice behind these sentiments is Princess, a member of the Crime Mob Crew. Princess goes on to say: See, me, I ain’t nothing nice, and Crime…

  Kalen Nicole

  January 10, 2019

  Art, Growing Up, Young Adult

  communication, Community, conversation, culture, Experience, Faith, Feminism, Friends, Hip Hop, Learning, Life, Lyrics, Meaning, music, Others, Philosophy, relationships, Self, Trap, Understanding, Writing

• Do it for the culture

  Culture: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (popular culture, southern culture -merriam-webster.com In appreciation for the Migos’ album Culture, my obsession with analysis, summer and instrospection, I present…

  Kalen Nicole

  July 28, 2017

  Assimilation, Growing Up, Young Adult

  Bad and Boujee, Community, culture, Experience, Family, Friends, Hip Hop, Lyrics, Migos, music, Others, Rap, relationships, Trap