If the art's doing its job, it's upsetting someone. These are some of my favourites. Highlights from the Instagram comment section — hate, love, ragebait accusations, the occasional "this HAS to be rage bait," and the occasional hater who actually softens into a collab offer. Names redacted on my end; commentary by me.
A guy with a Sonic the Hedgehog avatar said I was about to blow up. My own fans didn't believe him.
You know the rap game is broken when someone leaves you an unambiguously positive comment and the peanut gallery assumes the only possible explanation is that you paid them. Six replies. Six. Including one person offering to split the cost of whatever I was allegedly paying this person. I am, for the record, paying nobody. But I love the theory.
@xxx shut up you're trolling
@xxx this HAS to be ragebait
@xxx whatever he's paying you, I'll half it
@xxx thanks dude I appreciate the support I'll never stop 🔥🔥🔥
The "n e v e r stop" spacing was load-bearing. I stand by every keystroke.
Nose Ring Theory went up. This commenter hated everything about it. But mostly the mic.
Here's a fun thing about leaning into "cringe" as an art direction: it invites an extremely specific flavour of critic — the one who showed up to rage at you, then got distracted mid-rant by something adjacent (my microphone, apparently), and somehow ended up more offended by the equipment than the song. I watched this one happen in real time.
What bothers me the most as a girl with nose rings is actually the mic, I hate that mic its so trash and people just get it cuz it has the rgb lights. I wouldn't even waste my money on that for vocals. Its like a 59$ microphone and its utter trash 🗑️
but yeah sorry if the bait was supposed to be about my genitalia its the mic that baited me
@xxx awe I'm sorry, if you hate it so much why don't you tell me more about why it sucks 😏
@monethiphop haha yeah maybe if I get the energy lol but I can recommend some affordable mics that are better.
@xxx it actually was more than 59$ lol which mic do you think it is? If you check my actual recording or more recent video you'll see the quality is better 😏
Two weeks later same commenter leaves "Doing better than my posts" on one of my newer videos. I asked if they wanted to collab. They said offers still on the table. I DM'd them. This is what the algorithm won't show you: hater-to-collaborator is a real conversion funnel if you don't flinch.
Doing better than my posts
@xxx I did ask if you wanted to collab 😏
@monethiphop which one? Sorry which offer? Hey whatever theory u got ain't gonna change me or my life so its all good haha. I dont get triggered by things I know not to be true, if it doesnt apply to me i dont get mad 🙌
@xxx i sent you a DM 😊
Scoreboard: one hater trash-talked the equipment, got offered a callback, took the callback. If it doesn't apply, it doesn't apply — I wrote that down and put it in a song, probably.
This is Volume One. The inbox is open, the comment section is unsupervised, and the algorithm keeps serving me up to people who were never supposed to find me. I keep a folder. More editorials coming.
Finally real rap I'm tired of this mumble crap going around bro thank you for bringing real lyrics back in the rap game you about to blow up real soon keep it up 👍