he used to be an unapologetic communist but when he blew up he toned it down a ton, glad to see he hasn't become more conservative with success
conflating democrats with the left
:cringe:
Death to America
The Democratic Party is not left-wing, but let's face it: Is he wrong about us doing nothing?
No he's definitely not wrong unfortunately :sadness-abysmal:
Death to America
my first peggy song was I Just Killed a Cop Now I’m Horny lol
saw him live a few months ago :ferret-poggers:
used to beg him on twitter to perform it live, it never worked :angery:
I'm going to be honest I don't really like his sound? Like I support any communist making art, especially with the intention of agitating, but I just couldn't get into his music.
which projects did you listen to, and what music do you typically like? lots of his work crosses genres
I can't remember, tbh - it has been a few years. I go through phases with different genres so maybe it just wasn't the right time. Lately I've been into a lot of jazz fusion like Weather Report and my steady favorite has been the glitchy World's End Girlfriend.
In terms of rap, my taste is sort of eclectic but I'm not sure if there's much of a pattern. Like most people my age, I had a huge Weezy phase that never fully ended. Outkast, Gucci Mane, Danny Brown, Busdriver, Ghostface Killa and Method Man and the rest of the Wu, JID... that's what's on my "recently played" if that helps.
Do you have any recommendations?
danny brown makes me lean toward LP! or veteran, both of those projects are very similar to danny's style. if you need to choose, i'd describe LP! as being more sample based while veteran is much more schizoprenic. peggy and danny have worked together a bunch, peggy produced 3 tearz from uknowhatimsayin and they have a collab album coming out soon
The fact people still conflate the "left" with the Democratic Party after 2020 is a genuine collective failure of the western "left"
I’ve listened to communist slow jams; he’s openly misogynistic and anti-feminist, not really a communist.
communist slow jams is by far the edgiest thing he ever made, a lot of the statements on that mixtape were trying to make a point. whether that point was executed well is a different story (cough cough lee daniels freestyle)
This song is a response to racism and prejudice from other marginalized groups. Its purposely offensive, in an effort to prove that talking down to each other gets us no where and makes us lose focus on real opposition. I cannot describe how racism from other groups make me feel in conversation, I've tried, but i cannot. So hopefully after this song, you will feel as upset and low as it makes me feel when other peoples plight is compared to black peoples, & how worthless playing oppression olympics is and how ugly racism from other people effected by white supremacy is.
^From his bandcamp.
I used to get so disappointed by artists who write about politics/shit I care about who then also go on to say really dumb shit, but I've changed my perspective a lot. Art is so amorphous, I don't really expect people to construct a persona of themselves, a song is just a song. The semantics, even the words, don't really feel that important, it's all about you and your response to it all.
I think what it is is that I've lately been able to recognize how dumb, mean, antisocial and bigoted I am, despite considering myself a "leftist." And I kinda see some of that in every artist and every person in general. I guess I sometimes appreciate when someone's message is fucked up and conflicted, because anyone close enough to "the truth" as I see it is bound to be fucked up and conflicted. I don't take shit seriously anymore, maybe things just feel too polished in 2022.
Random rant over lol
EDIT: Also, I've heard random PSL-affiliated rap, and I think what I wrote above is why that shit honestly sucks to my ears. It's like hitting you over the head with like "the workers must own the means of production shout out fidel!" and I'm like uhhh ok this was made in a communist lab
i just hate the execution of lee daniels freestyle. if i can't get the point of the song without an external piece of media informing me on the intent (just hearing the song, it feels like plain bigotry) then i believe it's failed to communicate its ideas effectively
Yeah nah I'm in total agreement, don't think the album is all that good anyway. I was more fighting this internal instinct to cancel peggy
same, except i think communist slow jams is incredible and deserves more recognition for pioneering the style of cloud rap with an aggressive delivery that artists like rx papi have made careers out of
Definitely shook me when I first heard it. I was in my prime pre-marxist liberal white-guilt phase too 😰
Realizing now that Peggy definitely had a hand in radicalizing me lol
oh he 100 percent true for me too, rainbow six/curb stomp/1488 were some of the first truly radical stuff i heard
