jazz rap

and why im obsessed with it

its the idea, the sentiment, of two vastly seperate beings coming together to embrace in a messy and hopeless but always beautiful dance. the lightness of the jazz, paired with the grittiness of rap.

beauty and horror look pretty when they twirl together under the willow tree.

and when i listen to the music i imagine the splendid symphony of trumpets and saxophones and piano coming to meet the rhythm and step of the fastly spat words. like the tide coming up to kiss the grain of sand, such different feelings yet you can’t imagine the ocean without the shore, can you?

it’s like an ode to my life. if my movements and feelings had sound i believe it would be jazz rap. tumbling and moving and dramatic, broken and yet somehow still whole and beautiful, but coming apart at the seams.

thats how i see my life. thats how jazz rap feels. its not about the beauty or about the chaos: its about creating a space in which both can exist without knocking the other one down.