Following the release of chart-topping “Ye”, Kanye propels himself back into the limelight, this time with long-time collaborator/frenemy Kid Cudi under the pseudonym Kids See Ghosts with an album of the same name. Clocking in at a short but punchy 7 tracks Kids See Ghosts follows the trend of recent G.O.O.D music releases that have […]
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Mental Health & the Progressive State of Mainstream Hip-Hop
Mental illness has seemingly always simmered beneath the surface of mainstream hip-hop. In the 1990s paranoia permeated throughout the lyrics of Tupac Shakur. The track ‘Suicidal Thoughts’ closes The Notorious B.I.G’s debut studio album Ready to Die, charting the depth of Biggie’s depressed state through a late night phone conversation, ending with simulated suicide. Mainstream […]