Milo

Milo is good alt-rap and so the flies dont come is a great album, i love it.

But he is not smarter or more literary just because he namedrops a bunch of philosophers and unconnected references. The cheeky intellectual rapper angle is a good character but there's no actual substance to it. He even says, "yo milo why you front like youre enlightened/cause presently its advantageous"

Not to imply that he is self aware. This dude claims his favorite philosopher is shopenhauer while simultaneously thinking its unforgivably racist that death grips named an album niggas on the moon.

He's a great lyricist, I quite like his flow too, it works well with the music.
Things that happen at day is my fav. album

Poor man's Aesop Rock

His rhymes move between nonsense and personal insight in a nice sounding way, but it's certainly not profound.

>>8584834
This. Too many name drops, not enough substance. I like his music but his pretension gets tiresome.

Illogic, Aesop Rock, and Busdriver are more engaging intellectually.

sounds like pseudo-intelligent rap crap my tattoo artist, weed dealer, recent buddhist conversion brother in law who moved to Atlanta to be with his niggas foams over.

the lyrics you posted are just masturbatory highlights of popular alt-thinking that appeal to people who barely understand their concepts.

Genuinely a very pretentious song in the purest sense of the word.

Milo is cool until you realize he actually believes what he says

OP,

Milo is definitely my favorite rapper out there. I dig his personality and his lyrics. My favorite of is his Baths album.
Peace

>>8584959
Adding to that though, he is not perfect. Some of his hooks are quite annoying and he seems pretentious at times, but I think we all are as pretentious as him. His raps become more human because he talks about thoughts of pretense that many of us do think about.

>>8584952
To go off of that, I think that him believing what he says is only a positive thing. These philosophers also believed what they said and lived by firmer convictions than I think a majority of people do now, myself included. Food for thought.

>>8584814
he's pseudo-intellectual crap
other rappers have had this schtick

/lit/ appears to enjoy milo
I'll make sure to reference this thread in the future.....

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>>8584916
Agreed. Aesop and Busdriver are both great.

>>8584943
I enjoy Milo but this is still an accurate post.

>>8584952
Kek, accurate

Here's an example of a far superior Busdriver verse. This is better than most collegiate contemporary poetry without a doubt:

Under the cellulite laden thigh of the night
I slip miniature mantras between my cries and gripes
Jewel-flavored crystals in the red, blue, and white stripes
While crowds throw numbers at me like The Price is Right
And downtime is never met with an overjoyed grin
Cause sleep and death have always been conjoined twins
You'd rather lick the red gills of pop art
Than your cement-filled pock marks
The withering tendrils from my wrought heart
Reach for a Benadryl like it was a lost ark
Cause my average day is for the body of aegis, they're prompting these sieges
We cry to these seniors, living inside of splotchy Adidas
Serving consecutive sentences
My corrective lenses is ruby quartz
Yet my vision ain't worth a jiggling of booty warts
Circumstances trap writers like Kathy Bates
Under a decolorized happy face
So my car ain't covered in candy paint
But still the nanny state can't fix the diaper rash
I'm pinging this on a cyber cast
Questioning news items playing pattycake with Ira Glass
The fact that this pony show's racist
Stirs the colloquial cake mix and charges the homeostasis
Of all the homies who await us like we some Smokin' Joe Fraziers
But my unchecked whining's like some ceremonial plate shift

>>8585215
Adidas doesn't rhyme with sieges.