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Riff: Chance the Rapper & Young Thug – “Big B’s”

Jul 25, 2017

Split it with my niggas in the group chat/Left for a minute then I flew back/Had to ask Bruce “where the truth at?”/Had to ask Rahm “where the truth at?”

from Big B's lyrics by Chance the Rapper & Young Thug

A ghoulish, leaky organ frames the colliding of two rap galaxies. It’s a cosmic fugue, star-crossed lyrics that catapult off the beat like a Jesse White tumbler. Each bring their own reality to the table; on one end, lavish and unrepentantly outlandish; on the other, a pillar of hope who champions for social reform. A hometown hero who hasn’t forgot where he’s from, a flex on both sides.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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