On September 5, 2019, a 14-minute Turkish rap song was uploaded on YouTube at exactly 12 a.m. and reached 10 million views within two days. Şanışer (Sarp Palaur), a Turkish rapper known for his controversial lyrics, collaborated with 17 artists and created “Susamam” which translates to “I won’t be silenced.”
Vaporwave. An internet “microgenre,” ill-defined as lazy, unimportant, slowed-down elevator music, embodies the outlook of millennials, Generation Z and even some of the more disillusioned members of earlier postmodernity.
The professor in question has been bombarded with class evaluations accusing him of presenting PowerPoints that aren’t his, leaving unprepared TAs to teach the class, making students wait outside of the classroom while he prints more exams during a test and putting on Crash Course videos for an entire hour and twenty-minute lecture.
With the fall semester ending at Stony Brook, students will be trickling back home to New York City, Virginia and Hong Kong. International students, like Queenie Wong, watch on social media and hear from friends and family in Hong Kong about the human rights quandaries back home.
I’m a huge rap fan and an avid listener, but I can’t help but cringe when I hear certain played-out bars delivered as if they never existed. They might be catchy, convenient and very accessible to the average listener, but it gets old quickly.
I was in middle school the first time I heard LCD Soundsystem. They were on the Step Brothers soundtrack, and “North American Scum” blared during the opening credits in the iconic scene where Will Ferrel’s and John C. Reilly’s characters meet. I was drawn to the synths and cheeky lyrics of James Murphy pretty much immediately.