Spaceghostpurrp Waxes Poetic About London Bitches

Your bitch got beauty, but mine’s from London

There has been a lot of hysteria over the new Kanye track and the new G.O.O.D. Music track over the last couple of days so I’ll quickly address both here. On “Theraflu” it was nice to hear Kanye own a track as an MC. Haven’t seen him go in like that in years. And.. nevermind. Fuck “Mercy.” Maybe I’m too stuck in my ways, but why can’t Pusha T rap like he did circa 2004? Not even HudMo’s “additional instruments” (whatever that means) can save this one. Now onto some real shit.

Back in February, I wrote that I was coming around to the Spaceghostpurrp hype. Well, now I’m firmly placed on the bandwagon. The Carol City MC/producer and Rvdxr Klvn kingpin sounds like Dungeon Family wrapped in gauze and dipped in acid. It’s crude, misogynistic and antagonistic to just about anything and everything. Matching A$AP Rocky bar for bar on “Purple Swag Pt. 2” certainly helped pushed him into the spotlight, but it is the mixtapes, Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (1991) and God of Black that really epitomize the Rvdxr Klvn aesthetic. “Lustful ’97” is a love song. Sort of. The chorus of “you want me, I want you” signifies that, but Spaceghost is a pretty vile character so his fairytale isn’t gonna play out like yours. Moans occasionally cut through the clanging beat to signify the presence of some female counterpart, but she never really materializes making the chorus even more distant and vague.

“Lustful ’97” isn’t for everyone. It doesn’t fit into the sub-three minute parameters of radio rap. Spaceghost’s vocals are put through multiple filters and beat is dark and grimy. It’s music for outcasts. For the angry youth. And that’s why I’m on the bandwagon. Stream “Lustful ’97” below and download it here.