It all makes for a fun-house take on the genre, and its current ringleader is Lil Uzi Vert, who last week released his best album, “Luv Is Rage 2,” on the heels of his breakout hit “XO Tour Llif3,” a bitter and cheeky song about recrimination that’s part punchy rap, part dreamy R&B and part melodic hardcore, which went from a post on SoundCloud to No. The genre is arriving at its Dalí phase, when all the old frameworks - formalist lyricism, soul music DNA, mainstream pop ambition - are melting into something only half-recognizable. And there are surrealists who stretch out words and melodies like taffy. There are rappers who mainline the aesthetic and vibrating energy of punk. There are rappers who rap in only occasional, seemingly random bursts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Listen to hip-hop in 2017 and hear the darnedest things.
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