In reality the defense contractors, investment bankers, hedge fund managers, Silicon Valley technocrats and options traders who hold all the cards are scammers: these vultures perpetuate endless myths about their own competence and intelligence so they can gut the remaining functional limbs of our economy for parts and laugh at the cereal-eating proles from their private apocalypse bunkers. In this fantastical simulation, “elbow grease” stains the thousand dollar shirts of intergenerational wealth, artificial intelligence is being developed for the benefit of all rather than dystopian corporate surveillance schemes, and Raytheon champions diversity and inclusion while manufacturing Space Age weapons to incinerate the black and brown people who defy American imperialism internationally.
Wall Street and K Street and Palo Alto success stories are deified as exemplary specimens who “worked hard” to achieve the near mythical American dream of hedonistic consumption. These robber barons in Audemars watches run elaborate, intentionally confusing money-making schemes that victimize normal people while discussing themselves and their business in the sunny language of Californian New Age psychobabble and humanitarian liberalism. “Among the most obviously untrue myths that Americans believe about ourselves is that we value hard work.Īmerica is a country controlled by a vampire class of financiers, lobbyists, venture capitalists, and weapons manufacturers, many of whom are undoubtedly pedophiles blackmailed by foreign intelligence agencies. The heavily influential piece that first codified the scam-rap sub-genre 2017Ĭracking Pin Numbers: The Rise of Scam Rap
A simple rule of thumb is that any darker trap song within a BPM over 140 released in the past year or so could be called tread.” - From Hit the Gym: On the Proliferation of Tread Music, Sept. Some say all WOD producers music is tread, or all recent GMR releases are tread, or any dark and moody cloud trap released since 2015 is tread, but it’s a spectrum hip-hop fans never seem to pain themselves with genre hyper-specification. The sound, while dark, is refreshing and danceable it has the potential to get asses shaking in every club from LA to London if Diplo or Drake get their hands on it. While the similarly uptempo New Orleans Bounce takes you into a 5th Ward strip club-a weekend night of gaudy chains and overpriced bottles-Tread takes the listener to Loosie Mane’s North Philly block, drinking Jim Beam out the bottle at 10 in the morning on a block of deteriorating row houses. The Tread sound and aesthetic is reflective of the ennui of the grey Philly landscapes where it was born and of the increasingly atomized nature of music scenes and humans in the digital age. Instead of turnin’ up at Magic City, they took molly and are snowed in at home. “Tread isn’t Lil Uzi Vert croaking falsetto in a choker about jewelry, this is Chxpo, all sinuses and mushmouth, in a dark corner of a boarded-up Cleveland vacant or Kane Groceries and Warhol.ss masked up trying to get rich. In his first article for POW, Lucas introduced the wider world to Philadelphia’s Working on Dying collective and tread music, years before they would become some of the industry’s most sought after producers for their collaborations with Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti Hit the Gym: The Proliferation of Tread Music If you come across any more of his work - be it Google doc, letter, essay, or manuscript –please email passionweiss at gmail dot com.
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You can find his full collection of POW work here. He’ll be eternally missed, but his legacy lives on through his words on everything from the kings of the modern Soundcloud underground to ’90s Memphis cassette tapes, from Drake to Drakeo. While his tragic death deprives us of countless unwritten gonzo masterpieces, he nonetheless leaves behind an impressive body of work - especially considering everything collected here was written before the age of 26. Show your support by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can continue to cultivate great writing from one-of-one’s like Lucas Foster.ĭuring his brief stay on earth, Lucas Foster forged a reputation as one of the best young music journalists of his generation.
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