RaindropHustla

God, this guy looks like such an asshole.

But I have to live with it, because I cannot live without the beetz of Rustie these days. I blogged about it before. He makes the best recent “people don’t think it’s hiphop” hiphop.

His songs are like gremlins eating your speakers. Too bad Scion ruined gremlin imagery with that one wack ad campaign.

Anyways, call it what it is: Hyperactive, super aggressive synth + computer music. Regressive sounds arranged for maximum drama, melodic beat-droppings where you either make “that face” or don’t. But there’s also the trend where everything’s way late on the beat, and Rustie kind of runs with that, kind of takes it to an extreme, nearly displeasing but actually quite pleasing place…

...and so it is I also have to deal with the fact his music is called wonky. WONKY. As a proposed genre name.

And of course that link is from Pitchfork from like a year ago, and of course Rustie is mad about it, like, ‘I’m not wonky, that’s just a name people made up,’ and he gets to be pissed about it, because it’s like a THING the media’s DONE to him. And of course he’s supposed to be the leader of it. It’s so stupid. The name and also the constant naming. UK people do that and electronic music people do that. “Electronic music” people are creepy.

To top it off, it’s all very cool. I know this because it’s part of my religion, Stones Throw. Rustie is in the new Gaslamp Killer “live in MIA” podcast. So cool. The Rustie image was from Wire. Next thing, he’s going to be in Sugar Ape magazine. “Wonky” sounds like something Nathan Barley would say.