{"id":484479,"date":"2019-04-09T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820124"},"modified":"2019-04-09T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:18:20","slug":"kevin-abstract-proves-that-more-rap-songs-can-be-one-verse-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/kevin-abstract-proves-that-more-rap-songs-can-be-one-verse-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Abstract Proves That More Rap Songs Can Be One Verse Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kevin.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kevin-abstract-brockhampton-weight-iridescence-727773\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Abstract<\/a>\u2018s \u201cThe 1-9-9-9 Is Coming\u201d isn\u2019t long. The song\u2019s runtime is a little under two minutes and contains one verse \u2014 just 45 seconds of rapping. There\u2019s no hook, no bridge, no climax. Nothing to cut the dour subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, in that short window Abstract illustrates a life of alienation and precarious financial success. His mom still works at Sonic, guilt is eating away at him and people from his hometown still think he\u2019s queerbaiting. It\u2019s claustrophobic, until he makes a sharp pivot. \u201cQuit being a bitch and quit hating,\u201d he raps. \u201cY\u2019all pump faking, I\u2019m a power bottom.\u201d If the detractors aren\u2019t silenced, they should at least be stunned by the stunt. Abstract breaks into a double-time flow before riding off into the sunset, as the beat descends into computer glitches and distorted jazz horns.<\/p>\n<p>More rap songs should be this long; more stories would benefit from being this short.<\/p>\n<p><em>Arizona Baby<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BwAePVpAEFW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">coming soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kevin-abstract-the-1999-is-coming-820124\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Abstract\u2018s \u201cThe 1-9-9-9 Is Coming\u201d isn\u2019t long. The song\u2019s runtime is a little under two minutes and contains one verse \u2014 just 45 seconds of rapping. There\u2019s no hook, no bridge, no climax. Nothing to cut the dour subject matter. Nevertheless, in that short window Abstract illustrates a life of alienation and precarious financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 22:16:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}