Video: SpaceGhostPurrp “The Black God”

SpaceGhostPurrp is best known for 3 things up til now: 1) bass so trill its almost psychedelic, 2) ignorance so willful its almost avant garde and, of course, 3) purrp so powerful its almost spaceghost. But on “Black God”–the video he dropped this morning–the maker of trillwave beats for A$ap Rocky shows the world his god-body side, rapping “the black be the power of the soul / protected by the cold / X times X, the G code…I got to have the world in my hands / I’m a god / I’m no longer a black man.” The title fits sort of uneasy with the images in the video; pimpmobile caddies, gold chains, piles of cash, light-skinnded video hoes and lots of gambling (Einstein: “God does not play dice with the world.” Black Einstein: “He plays strip poker.”). But on the other hand it’s funny how the smallest shift in theme changes your perception of an artist–put some black power chants in between his gold fronts and Purrp stars to sound uncannily like Kendrick Lamar on the hook. On the other hand, his pose with meanface and dooky gold chain is really not too far from the original god MC Rakim Allah back in his Dapper Dan suit/Paid in Full glory days. Rap has always been the place where 5% percent philosophy meets the trife life (I’m looking at you, entire Wu-Tang Clan) but is the will to power the same as black power? More interestingly, is generation trill growing into its very own next level the way Criminal Minded “gangster rap” did in the late 80s/early 90s? Call it A$ap Rakim. Anyway, I expect some of y’all will offer up answers to all these questions and more. See you in the comments section…