reflecting on carti and "rage music"

(written 6 months ago. my friends told me that the initial impression of WLR was that it was terribly mixed. this just proves i have no idea about how music should sound.)

i feel like carti was most successful at this genre that we're currently in the midst of dealing with. i don't think that everyone sounds like an imitator (might be a little too much credit to him) but it's been almost 2 years since wlr and i don't believe that i hear anything from his contemporaries that sounds as dedicated to the sound or enjoyable.

here are some of the people that make "rage music" i'm considering: uno, yeat, sofaygo and all those fine young "underground" men, ken carson, destroy lonely, trippie redd

people that make music adjacent to "rage music" that i enjoy: fauni, hook, select duwap kaine and warhol.ss songs, staysie atoms, rockhardt, lancey foux, bktherula

i feel like the people with the least excuses are the opium artists. ken carson hasn't made a song i like since his two tracks with lancey foux so he doesn't count. i tried that destroy lonely album and i still haven't made it through. it just doesn't excite me! it doesn't move me! i really like a lot of his older stuff to this day though.

perhaps the best out of his cohort is yeat, but i don't listen to yeat because i'm lazy. he has that fun song where it goes [insert song here when you remember]

wlr felt very cathartic and ik this has a lot to do with carti not releasing music up until then, but it achieves whatever current rage music attempts to do. as a subgenre i feel like it also does not have longevity, but wlr will outlive what's been put out since then.

from a technical standpoint i also think wlr sounds really clean & most if not all the songs avoid sounding muddy but i can't say that for many of the other songs in this subgenre.

other general points:

- some of f1lthy's best work is on wlr

- ummm it still feels like the other artists are trying to jump on a trend (except for maybe uno)

- wlr is too influential as a moment in history, as a fashion moment, and as a moment for fans and 14 year olds around the world alike