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Instead, GaTa sells them on a Lil Dicky verse.
Who the fuck is Lil Dicky?
they ask, dumbfounded.
Wait, are you Jack Harlow?
The term itself is a gimmick.
And yet, in Hearsay, GaTa demonstrates how the gimmick is often used as an advantage in rap.
Check out his videos; they get millions of views, GaTa points out to the enterprising bandits.
Dave grimaces, but he knows GaTa is right.
Dave records a track and a skit and takes a photo mocking being held captive by his burglar-cum-collaborators.
The verse is tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, and it impresses his new collaborators.
And perhaps therein lies the smoking gun for why white rappers careers live on borrowed time.
In Harlows newest album,Jackman, his frustration becomes palpable in the track It Cant Be.
It must be my skin, I cant think of any other reason I win, he raps sardonically.
I cant think of an explanation, it cant be the years of work I put in.
I have to search for a feeling thats real.
Theres weight on a gun line, no matter how frivolously or nonchalant they say it.
Post Malones ruminations were even more abrupt in video remarks.
Obviously its very impressive when you go from nothing to something, he said.
How can white artists be embraced when they largely fail to grasp their Black listeners inherent marginalization?
Its my destiny or whatever.
Kareem says its the most creative excuse for being narcissistic hes ever heard.
With Burd at the helm, the answer to that is as opaque as his nude-colored Scroguard.
