{"id":2447642,"date":"2019-08-16T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871513"},"modified":"2019-08-16T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:50:41","slug":"now-its-just-3-now-its-just-2-now-its-just-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/now-its-just-3-now-its-just-2-now-its-just-me\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Now It\u2019s Just 3. Now It\u2019s Just 2. Now It\u2019s Just Me.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It helps, sometimes, to think of the average rap verse as a commercial: Built to sell a rapper\u2019s technical skills or life story or artistic vision in between hooks. Every now and then, though, a rapper\u2019s verse contains a bar, phrase, or ad-lib that either renders the hook useless \u2014 a single moment become\u2019s the song\u2019s chorus. Some of the best examples of this phenomenon include Offset\u2019s \u201cWooh wooh wooh wooh wooh\u201d on \u201cBad & Boujee\u201d or Young M.A.\u2019s infamous \u201cHeadphanie\u201d line on \u201cOOOUUU.\u201d The next song to potentially enter that pantheon is 3ohBlack<\/a>\u2018s \u201cAll Talk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Released in April, a less than 10-second clip from the song\u2019s video has become a micro<\/a>\u2013meme<\/a>. During \u201cAll Talk\u2019s\u201d second verse, 3ohBlack<\/a> raps signature phrase: \u201cThere\u2019s four niggas walkin\u2019 up and it\u2019s just me \/ Now it\u2019s just three \/ Now it\u2019s just two \/ Now it\u2019s just me.\u201d In a vacuum, the bars amount to nothing more than quintessential tough talk, but when coupled with the nonsensical visual it\u2019s elevated to high art.<\/p>\n

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THIS GOTTA BE THE HARDEST LINE IN RAP HISTORY \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\udd25 pic.twitter.com\/7E1msmKOJo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 GLOCK (@GlockRivers) August 9, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The entire concept for the \u201cAll Talk\u201d video is that 3ohBlack\u2019s enemies are predictably \u201call talk.\u201d Over 4-minutes, the envious assailants are in search of 3ohBlack\u2019s money and will follow him from a hotel to an apartment in search of it. The climax happens when 3ohBlack runs past a bag of empty Outback Steakhouse to shoot his would-be robbers one-by-one, punctuating the end of each bar with a gun noise before cheap, cartoonish, VX blood erupts from each antagonist\u2019s head. 3ohBlack\u2019s acting anchors the entire scene, and culminates with him dancing at the expense of his deceased foes.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It helps, sometimes, to think of the average rap verse as a commercial: Built to sell a rapper\u2019s technical skills or life story or artistic vision in between hooks. Every now and then, though, a rapper\u2019s verse contains a bar, phrase, or ad-lib that either renders the hook useless \u2014 a single moment become\u2019s the […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 09:47:45","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}