Sunday Music: (New) Clipse - The Same Corner, The Whole Universe

I don’t think it’s the standout track. I don’t think it’s anything new. I don’t think it’s anything you need to spend more than 30 seconds thinking about.

I do think, and I’ll stand by this, that Pusha T and Malice, especially with Pharrell, are the Larry McMurtry wild west books about drug dealing, and I don’t care if it’s one-lane and shallow, I want to hang out with them forever.

The choice to make this so heavily a ccapella with that slight reverb fascinates me.

The choice to let the beat that does come in be so old-school chopped fascinates me.

The choice to have a run on the album of acronym titles fascinates me.

And I don’t think any of my fascination warrants being deeply probed so much as deeply experienced.

This is my fascination now and forever with Clipse. Nothing is new. Everything fits like an old glove.

Even the lyric video has style. This is culturally inappropriate. Get into it.

Clipse are forever proving that if you define your own norms the area to explore is infinite - making acronym titles feel inevitable rather than gimmicky, making minimalist beats sound maximalist, making the same corner feel like a whole universe.