![]() is the type of rapper who can insist that him name is a clumsy-ass acronym for “King Remembered In Time,” then use that ungainly phrase as the title of his mixtape, then give that mixtape some deeply ugly velvet-painting fantasy-novel cover art. A posse full of stylists, and he drawls his way past everyone with deceptive ease, flexing the sweaty grade-grubbing intensity of a born honor student and still winning anyway. And then there’s the great seesawing blackout delivery that he falls into sometimes: “ Been a killer, eighty-sixer, nigga, that’s my born year” - pure ingrained technique. On a song with some of the world’s most fashionable rappers, then, K.R.I.T. King and Muddy Waters with a Rolling Stone writer’s reverence, and ends things by claiming to be “a true artist” like Ma Bailey - an unfamiliar name who, upon Googling, turns out to be K.R.I.T.’s tattoo artist. mutters about not being able to pronounce the names of expensive drinks, namechecks B.B. On that verse, probably the song’s best, K.R.I.T. We hear a voice, one that sounds Southern to the point of foreignness even after the Yelawolf verse, twanging with hard and unashamed passion, rapping longer than everyone else, chest-beating and tooth-gnashing, proudly and defiantly uncool. A$AP Rocky’s “ 1 Train” is probably the year’s most self-consciously cool rap song - seven boldfaced blog-rap names, painstakingly assembled and sequenced, all attempting to outdo each other with their oblique references and studiously casual cadences. ![]()
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