What you gain in expertise, you lose in surprise. Without the ability to be surprised and swept up by something, you can forget how joyful music, particularly rap, can be.
There are further ingredients to be found on a song like 'play,' which uses New Orleans bounce, or 'richest girl alive,' where Skaiwater calls themselves the richest girl alive over a beat that would sound at home in a Florida jook playlist.
#Gigi seems to pull threads from the entire history of music, and somehow all those bits and pieces and samples resolve into something not just coherent, but magical.
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