song of the decade

i should probably just go ahead and get this out of the way and i mean no autohomo but the best song of the decade was the song lollipop off the album the carter iii by just about any measure you could possibly endeavor to judge anything by on that kind of scale the song lollipop off the album the carter iii is a paean to art as such art untouched by forces outside of art but also fantastically subtly critical of those forces primarily through form and both timely and timeless in its delivery and content not just in the inane sense of talking about current events or micropolitical phenomena as well as universal themes but instead in the sense of building a circularity into the lyricism which codes those things which we would normally refer to as universal in terms of the immediate and vice versa which is itself again more than a sterile feat of form in its extension through its collusion with the other particularities of the song lollipop off the album the carter iii such as the employment of autotune in terms of that utopian excess and also the repetition which cannot help but strike one as also being excessive but without becoming machinic which is to say both of these as well as the other facts about the song lollipop off the album the carter iii enhance and fill out the other parts like for instance the lyrical felicities of lines like shawty said the nigga that she with aint shit shawty said the nigga that she with aint this shawty said the nigga that she with cant hit shawty ima hit it hit it like i cant miss and he cant do this and he cant do that shawty need a refund need to bring that nigga back by not only creating of them a productive which is to say artistic hole but also a critical totality a raising up out of them into the real political that is from the greek polis and the conceptual interaction of the city in how the enactment of not just the interpersonal but all the difficulties and aporias therein of all the radical intrapersonality that is constantly being fostered in response to and as a consequence of what might be called contemporary politics and the perfectness of encapsulating them in the form of rap music of commercially explosive rap music carrying multiple traditions and subsuming them into something neither or both which brings me to the question of context which is precisely presupposed by the category of best of the decade by which i mean the question of the best whatever of a whatever is never an objective determination of a thing but is instead a way of measuring a thing in relation to other often arbitrarily connected things in the case of year end lists this arbitrariness being encapsulated in the coincidences of the gregorian calendar and so on but so the point being that the song lollipop off the album the carter iii deserves to particularly be called the best song of the decade not just on its own merits but because as i have been trying to say just now that perhaps the most fascinating and beautiful thing about the song lollipop off the album the carter iii is precisely that it grasps and consumes all of its relevant contexts and by this i mean of course all contexts relevant to rap but also because of the highly singular place of rap and especially of one particular rap artist throughout the course of this decade its relevant contexts extend through the cultural and into just about everything in the world thus the fragmentary and distraught nature of all of my previous attempts to figure anything through it i mean one can hardly be expected to call a totalizing piece of art by its right name without first dealing with a host of fragments and synecdoches and all of that other crazy shit but enough apologetics slash vague embedded promises i hope in some small way the case has been made rigorously enough that we can all begin to understand why we esteem this song so highly

theory of lollipop performed aka video of my first performance

first post of the new year

yeah i know its late as fuck but i still gotta say that i am looking forward to 2009 i gotta lotta shit in the pipelines if you know what im saying and the new year has been pretty good to me i gotta say its been a hell of a ride so far but its only going to get crazier from hereonin the longer i been in the game the more respect i got for the cats who been doing this for decades theres people in this game whove been around since before the day i was born and that aint no fuckin joke if you know what im saying now even if i dont like some of those cats i gotta respect their hustle because thats what it is all about on some level no matter how much you want to try and reinterpret or distance yourself from that fact it is a pretty insurmountable absolute in this reality no matter what youre doing on some level youre hustling and the type of hustling that were all involved in differes from person to person but there are particular games you can get into and this rap game is one of the toughest games to get your money in even harder in many respects than the drug game though ive got no beef with those out there slanging since whether or not you like it you better fucking recognize the fact that motherfuckers slanging and transporting that shit are straight acting on the world stage buoying up nations and heavily impacting the international flow of capital and they have a lot of risk from every side of the so called justice system but thats all beside the point im saying that the rap game has a particular selectivity and highly hierarchical demeanour combined with this absurd determinations of taste and imagistic preference with everyone from record executives to fans to radio djs and while this isnt as necessarily life threatening as the issues that drug dealers might have to deal with they certainly cull tons of people out of the game making it a more selective field than just about any other hustle in the world but all of that is just sort of my musings what i really came to say was that this new year is going to be one hell of a new year if you know what im saying im pushing so much shit out this year you will not even believe it and one of those many things is going to be at least if i concede to my new years resolution the promised theory of lollipop that i put forth in an earlier blog entry its something ive been working on for such a long time now and i feel like if i do get it out its going to be a goddamn dissertation length hardass essay to read because despite what all the haters have been saying there is a wealth of implications and interesting details about that song in addition to it being a straight hip hop classic club banger with a straight phenomenal hook