We speak of missing the bus, missing homies, missing opportunities. That line from the story alone blew up on Twitter.) We speak in many different ways. “While other rappers brag about sex, drugs and expensive cars, Jimothy raps about his ambition to one day earn enough money to shop at upmarket supermarkets and listening to his mother’s advice,” they wrote, as if discovering a Black unicorn drinking from a lake of gold underneath a project staircase. (Despite a recent feature in The New York Times, which tried to convey tall-eyed surprise at the existence of a London rapper who doesn’t traffic in the tropes of many mainstream rappers. It’s obviously not the only way we speak. This is how we’ve spoken in hip-hop since we’ve been allowed to speak-crass and unfiltered, sexual and horny, direct yet metaphoric.
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