From the point of view of an outside observer, to be anointed the next big thing in hip-hop music industry is the most powerful force is to be given the keys to the platform of social and material pleasures. In pure speed at which a hot song can travel means that within a few weeks or months, the artist is unknown to a minor celebrity with a seemingly set filled with dreams and millions of followers on social media, mass live fees, TV and radio slots, club fame, chart dominance, sponsorship packages, designer clothing, luxury cars and much more. We love rapper, who expects such a success, as if it were already a foregone conclusion. Recall, for example, that Cardi B No. 1 single, “Bodak yellow”, which was written and recorded when she was still in the social networking phenomenon, but barely visible on hip-hop radio, filled with references to designer clothes and newfound power: “I just checked my account / exits, I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m rich!”
If what we see on Instagram and hear on the radio is to be believed, the paper battles of the fictional rapper Forex show, Donald Glover, Atlanta needs to experience such a festive push. In the first season of the show, his eponymous single is beginning to pick up. Its catchy chorus—“here’s the paper boy, paper boy / I’m all about that paper, boy,”was heard blasting from cars in Atlanta. He started to turn on the radio and name recognition, and his music is all the bluster of the young star. The locals, realizing that they were in the presence of a rapper with a buzzy new single, ask to be photographed with him. In the show has just begun, there was a frenzied feeling that paper Boi (born Alfred miles) was on the verge of hip hop celebrities and that “Atlanta” is a show that is mapped to one rapper electrifyingly simple and nourishing rise to fame.
But one of the great insights of “Atlanta” as he subverts this rags-to-riches mythology. Show, and did not stop at the storyline, less dramatic but more complex: the daily humiliations that the participant moves while in an awkward purgatory between a normal life and hip-hop celebrity. A new life paper fights are not filled with designer belts and attractive women. This parade of small indignities, both in his ongoing battle with the interloper twerpy and social media Star named Zan, who posts the video, which he shot surreptitiously, the paper battles of garbage. Everybody wants something from paper battles, whether his own cousin to make (Donald Glover) to ask for a job or a police officer, seemingly blind to grimace signed paper battles with the request.“Hey, you listen to Gucci mane?” he asks, grinning.
In his second season, Atlanta has doubled down on the rise and the position of the paper fights. At one point, he visits the technology company filled with mostly white people, who can hardly look with their laptops as he performs for them. He showed that one of the real white of company Directors 35 nick savage—play on the stage name of Atlanta rap superstar 21 the savage who rap almost exclusively about the grim world of Atlanta banditry. Atlanta is particularly well telegraphed, the killing of that young black artists are the subject of their art suddenly becomes viable for an audience of zealous white fans. There was a young, white radio.John. who feel comfortable using racial spot in front of the money but who closed in front of the older and gruffer of the paper fights. Or, in season 2, bro-ish white sound engineer who will propose a paper to make the fights more cartoonish takes on the voice for the introduction in the hip-hop playlist: “let’s do it again, and this time you at a party and all this madness,” he says, as blind as a police officer, on paper fighting for disbelieving look.
Of course, the paper fights demoralized in their own environment as well. When we first met him, he is a semi-successful dealer, and how his rap career has flourished, he has yet to recoup enough money to stop selling drugs. In one scene, he brazenly robbed his relationship with drugs, who calmly asks for forgiveness, saying, paper fights, “you will be fine, bro. Your song hot. He’ll probably go platinum or some shit.” Paper fights in the end finds a new dealer, which seems innocuous at first—until he discovers that his girlfriend has recorded an acoustic cover version of “paper Boi”, and asks if they could hang out. In the fourth episode this season, the paper battles is preparing for the forthcoming feature magazine with a visit to its colorful and wily Barber, who winds dragged him through the city on an unwanted adventure. When faced with a Barber’s son, the child recognizes the paper fights. He has the audacity to ask the rapper why he is not “fresh”. Paper fights snarls and yells at the child: “I’m just a regular ass. Famous people have to do their hair, sometimes cut”.
“Most of this shit rap performances,” paper fights recognized in the season 1 finale. His sidekick, always high Sensei Darius (played by Lakeith Stanfield) intervenes: “appearance is money”. But the paper battles, it seems, does not want to participate in theatrical performances, the unwillingness to clearly broadcast via Brian Tyree Henry is Hyper-focused body language. He’s constantly sagging, dragging his feet and wrinkling his forehead, muttering under his breath, frowning with annoyance and embarrassment. Even when he makes a television appearance—and he was invited on a talk show to discuss TRANS issues after a tweet disparaging comments on Kathleen Jenner—he cannot bear for a moment to get over their hostility to the farce. If the paper fights have counterparts in the real world of hip-hop, it’s Vince staples, a lyrical rapper from long beach, California, who are very fond of, but hardly a commercial success. “For the consumer, it’s about perception,” staples said in an interview on the radio “Hot 97” in the past year. “We don’t give a fuck about your music. What are you driving, how much money you have, who are your friends? Sneakers are fake”. Paper battle is not quite so thoroughly disappointed, but you can feel that he can be in the near future. As the series progresses, and his face begins to stay in a constant state of disgust, there looms the sense that salvation is not—the brighter the paper is fighting the star burns, the more degradation awaits him.
Sourse: newyorker.com
