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“1) Such misogyny quickly telegraphs doctrinaire hip-hop hardness, allowing the rapper to get “soft” in other emotional/sartorial departments: Call me gay and make fun of my skin-tight jeans all you want: I still fucked your bitch in the face. I’m roughly paraphrasing a couple of different Danny Brown lyrics here, but this general sentiment, with or without face-fucking, is common among acts like A$AP Rocky, Kid Cudi, and, yes, storm-cloud sex-god Drake. 2) The vast majority of hip-hop is, at bottom, about storytelling, and bad-guy antiheroes make more easily and more readily (if not, necessarily, more imaginatively) for interesting narrators than guys with enlightened, respectful attitudes. 3) As the listener, my better self can tut-tut the rapper’s retrograde attitude even as I secretly, vicariously thrill to its unfettered articulation.”
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