Good point, people forget the basis of hip-hop is taking other sources and reimagining them in a hip-hop context. With that in mind, it would make sense that a rapper’s favorite stuff would be music in other genres because that is what’s informing their choices
exactly and its so limiting to artist to not be inspired, or even defined by anything outside they box
Thread is now a Hideo Kojima Appreciation Thread
One of our greatest minds
he got me back on my cinephile s*** fr, i understand why he watches so many movies its literally infinite reference glitch

it scares me that hes getting older
i get what youre saying now, yeah that makes sense
as for portishead tho... portishead live at roseland nyc is the reason we got late registration smh
i never knew that about late registration that's crazy. makes so much sense though
I think these all make sense for him, and tbh I don’t think Travis is the kinda guy that needs to be performative
meh he’s not above that, but also you’re mostly right lol
i never knew that about late registration that's crazy. makes so much sense though


fionaapplerocks.tumblr.com/post/64613120297/fiona-apple-interviews-kanye-west-oct-2005/amp
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"You are the only current pop star to tour with a string section. When did you realize that strings and beats were such a potent combination?
Especially since Late Registration, right? Grabs his laptop and opens to an image of the cover of Portishead's 1998 album "Roseland NYC Live," featuring a sea of string players. Seeing this album cover did so much for me. This picture inspired me. I saw it years back, but on my first album I couldn't afford real strings. So after I won those Grammys, the first thing I did was run to Jon Brion, and then I ran and got a string section. Hip-hop never had strings that lush with drums that hard. But Portishead had that. And they sounded hip-hop, and people vibed to that. I said, "OK, what if we do that and I drop my poetry s*** on top of it?" Quoting "Anchorman" "Drink it in San Diego, it goes down smooth.""


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https://fionaapplerocks.tumblr.com/post/64613120297/fiona-apple-interviews-kanye-west-oct-2005/amp
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"You are the only current pop star to tour with a string section. When did you realize that strings and beats were such a potent combination?
Especially since Late Registration, right? Grabs his laptop and opens to an image of the cover of Portishead's 1998 album "Roseland NYC Live," featuring a sea of string players. Seeing this album cover did so much for me. This picture inspired me. I saw it years back, but on my first album I couldn't afford real strings. So after I won those Grammys, the first thing I did was run to Jon Brion, and then I ran and got a string section. Hip-hop never had strings that lush with drums that hard. But Portishead had that. And they sounded hip-hop, and people vibed to that. I said, "OK, what if we do that and I drop my poetry s*** on top of it?" Quoting "Anchorman" "Drink it in San Diego, it goes down smooth.""
god he's really the goat
i totally forgot about this fiona interview wow thank you
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