Tip of the Day:
Eat a banana before you eat spicy food (they’re good for gut health). Thank me later.

Professor got immaculate pen spinning skills

The amount he got from a single listen of that first song is blowing me away

Idk how possible it is, but we need more of this poet's take on hip hop

This is why I pay my internet bill.

"When technical ability reaches a certain level it creates hypnosis" THATS A BAR

Alive internet theory

I took this too literally and thought Kendrick Lamar was in the studio coming to meet this Italian Poet

We need more "Poets analyzing rap music" in general. Listening to him break down the lyrics really illuminates just how much rap is poetry, like at one point he perfectly described/defined what "flow" is in rap and I dont even think he realized it.

Great stuff

“Like , if you don’t live in them physically , the text crumbles a bit. “

17:55 "language of the streets is the language of poetry" is such a heater line

the ratio of text to analysis and insight is crazy. his points about cultural differences, novelty and antiquity, linguistic structure, dialect etc were great

if you get together again i would definitely watch

this healed me from all the times I was excited to show someone a song and got that self sinking response of indifference from them.

0:59 Im ngl, at the beginning I thought you dubbed over one of his songs in English, just with an accent so he’d understand the lyrics

8:09 "This conflict that we live as ex-colonialists, right? We have transferred it to the colonies while America lives it in its own territory." Who is this professor dropping almost as many bars as Kendrick?!

Hate to get back to the beef with Drake, but tell me one Drizzy song that you would sit down with your professor to discuss like this

a part of me secretly wishes for Kendrick to see this himself

I am a Black American who was a child when rap was born. I also listened to Italian opera during childhood. It's been easy for me to listen to both musical art forms because of their attention to both instrumentation and the musicality of language.

It's delightful to see my two early interests come together here. This was a lovely conversation.

4:37 Kendrick also does this on Swimming Pools and arguably in an even cooler way. It's the line where he says "you get a pool full of liquor then you die...vin it"

I won't lie, as a Black American experiencing my country's attempted erasure, seeing our creativity appreciated across language and culture makes me feel... good.  I am sure there is a better word but right now all I got is good.