Feeling Groupie

After teasing this post for more than a month, I have finally completed my list of biggest rappers right now.  I am considering commercial success, reputation, name recognition, and other factors along these lines.  I broke them into two tiers based on whether I think they have a case to be among the top names or just missed.  I also have sections for popular artists who are not in their prime and just missed the list, artists who have a case to be included but are likely in other genres, and some artists to watch for the future. As a note, I excluded artists who are not active or have indicated that they will likely not be active.   For example, Childish Gambino will not be included on the list because Donald Glover has indicated he will be retiring the project.   I also excluded Logic who had previously retired but is returning from retiring.   I have also excluded DaBaby because I’m not sure anymore what his popularity is for the short or long term giv...

One thing I thought would be fun would be to review a legendary terrible album.  While there is typically a massive audience for horrible movies (and many generate a cult-like following), the same is not generally true with albums.  In this, I commentated on and reviewed Lou Reed’s legendarily bad album Metal Machine Music .  It is often considered the worst album of all time and had never listened to more than 4 minutes of it prior to this experience (in high school, I gave up after around 4 minutes).  I gave my commentary throughout the 4 tracks (called A-1, A-2, A-3, and A-4).  Each track is around 16 minutes (except the 4 th track on the linear notes, where the length is listed as the infinity symbol).  Without further ado, here is my torturous experiment.   Prior ·          So scared already.   This is such a terrible idea. Track 1 ·          0:15 – Not t...