Definitely wanna see more content talking about Rory's stuff like this.

never thought i'd find myself quite so touched by the sentiment of an oatmeal cookie!

yo check out last year's Purple Moonlight Pages, not as direct with the poetic dedications as Bob's Son but still a AOTY contender in its own right.

Holy…wow this is beautiful. Like not scenic but just beautiful that the passion you show and demonstrate. I love your takes and believe in what you say whole heartedly. You deserve more views. A bare minimum of a million in my opinion. You are bold, and passionate. Thank you so much for this video and your channel

My god this man would go NUTSSSSSS if he found purple moo light pages by Ferreria

Not usually one to leave a comment, but I really enjoyed this analysis. I have been listening to R.A.P Ferraria, in many forms, for a few years now, and this was very enjoyable.

Hey, if you like “rap that wants to be poetry”, you NEED TO check out billy woods. His latest album BRASS is a collab with a poet called Moor Mother.

Such a strange place to start with Rory's music lmao. Check out the album that is my profile picture: milo - So the Flies Don't Come

MILOOOOOOO please dig into stuff like aesop rock aswell please, would love to see a professors take on it

Great video! Keep going through his albums, you’ll love every minute.

when i hear "Abomunist" i think "abolition" first, we can take that wherever but i mostly think it's about abolishing the idea of the self and collectivising it. fits in with Kaufman's goal to not be remembered/have a legacy

It's rare to have someone give an in depth analysis of very heady and dense lyrics like this. I have been trying to get better at taking pokes at what some of my favorite lyricists mean when they pen, so I really appreciate hearing a professor interpret what it means to him! Thank you.

your channel is so good. you really make an effort to understand these albums to the best you possibly can and i love that.

Make sure you listen to his previous album Purple Moonlight Pages!

Prof please check out Brass by billy woods and moor mother. Great analysis btw, keep elevating these voices please🙏🏾✊🏽 oh also look into the virtual cafe milo aka rap Ferreira created, it expands on the ideas of the album

if you like this album i would definitely recommend his previous album purple moonlight pages!

Very cool video. I am glad you enjoyed this album and you made some very interesting points.

Subscribed. Mostly because I don't want to miss it when you inevitably review more of Rory's work. You will not regret it. Great video. Thank you!

At 44:20 the bar "off riding green horses" reminded me of the song "pure scientific intelligence (quantum)" from Ferreira/milo's album "budding ornithologists are weary of tired analogies." On that song he raps, "Forestry is forward motion, a green horse captures the notion well." I also remembered a line from No Starving Artists where he says, "Dalliance, an army of one green stallion. We growin' scallions." This got me thinking about what the green horse/stallion represents. Apparently milo/Ferreira's 2018 tour in support of budding ornithologists was called "The Green Horse for Rap Tour." Somebody in the Genius lyrics section for "No Starving Artists" said this is refers to the poet Pablo Neruda's "Caballo Verde para la Poesía" magazine, which printed surrealist poems. Small world I guess. Prof. Skye's, I'd love to hear anything you can make out of the green horse bars. For some reason they keep sticking with me. I also realized that the song "Stet" from budding ornithologists has another Bomkauf-Bob Kaufman-cough -bomb line on it. Cool to see the development of these themes prior to Bob's Son.

Also redguard snipers is super important to the concept of the album. Think ferdydurke breaking form. In the refrain new sounds new verbs new words it’s like bob Kaufman’s tendency to create new words.

I saw that you got his attention on twitter!

One of the best videos on the site

Thank you, I love your breakdowns of albums and the approach you take by treating an album like an important piece of art. This one was very enjoyable. You should do his newest album, the Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures.

great analysis, found it really interesting

I love that your covering one of my favorite writers ever

Yeah, Abomunist Manifesto made me want to visit the OG poem with the same title. Seems like messages regarding the ABOlition of hierarchies / hierarchal institutions (Footprintism) and ABOmination as a label socially constructed by society placed on a group of people (almost every line in the poem that paints a negative picture of Abomunists). Wish Milo didn't skip the line "Abomunist reject everything except snowmen" but maybe intentionally left out cuz that was too obvious.

I’m so stoked that I’m about to hear a textual analysis of the entire album.

You HAVE to check out his album So The Flies Don't Come from 2015. Its really considered his magnum opus by a lot of people. To your point about not understanding some lines, he has mentioned before in interviews that its 100% on purpose. I remembering he mentioned snickering to himself as he writes a line that he knows people just won't be able to decipher. Great artist and really down to earth guy if you ever meet him on one of his tours.

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this was so amazing I love this album and it grows on me with every listen but I could never really dig into it thsi deeo because of how abstract and scattered the ideas and songs we’re, but being at a point where I could play it in my head while you talked about them brough a whole new understanding of the album and almost brought me to tears for some reason when talking to his son about having fun yet, probably because I saw him live a few weeks back and met him before his show in a very honest way, thanks for doing this you’ve gotten a new subscriber

This is great. Would love to see some earlier album reviews too!

One of the best reviews I’ve ever heard in this genre. Bravo!

I love listening Ferraria’s music because it continues to be an exploration. I’ll tune some things out sometimes and other things other times. I’ll have continual moments of realization and continue to feel the joy of solving a riddle

I was hoping you were going to talk about this

Glad you checked this out. Very nice, well thought out review. You should check out his album from last year. Easily one of the best albums of 2020.

Rap has always been related to poetry. One of the many influence "tendrils" in the formative years of Hip-Hop were the many black poets born from the Black Arts Movement, Jazz, and various acts like the Last Poets and the Watts Prophets who decide to blend their poetry performance with drum beats and instrumentation and then decided to record those performances back in the 1960s. However I strongly agree with you that Hip-Hop is a distinctly different medium from poetry because of how much versatile and expansive it is.

I love this analysis! Thank you so much for sharing! To add to the Wallace conspiracy, R.A.P. Ferreria, in an interview, said that he found David Foster WALLACE's ability to interrupt the reader, and not give punchlines admirable, because it forces the audience to pay closer attention to the work.

You should also listen to Rory’s “Who Told You To Think” & “Purple Moonlight Pages”

Hey Professor Skye, have ya heard Hemlock Ernst’s debut LP “Back At The House.” I think you’d love it!

Nice video sir

Great anylisis 🙏

Professor, unrelated genre, but you should maybe consider listening to and reviewing Declan McKenna's album from September of last year, "Zeros". Really great indie rock with a lots of 80s rock influence and throw in some 70s Bowie for good measure.

BEST 'REVIEW' VID EVER!!

yeah I've been listening to the guy for a few years and had NO IDEA he was from my state until I actually googled him and saw where he resided haha

Yes I'm glad you did this Milo aka rap ferreira is my favorite

HEY SKYE . . . PURPLE MOONLIGHT PAGES !

The SB The Moor feature is outstanding, man. Come on!

Hey skye! Hope the goats vinyl of Oliver came in and is better condition than my sons.

Best channel ever tbh

On the track Listening, the line "My shit be Ishmael Reed reading receipts with a three-piece" is a reference to a Dadaist/Philosophical novel called Ishmael (1992). In the novel, Ishmael is the name of a telepathic, and a highly intelligent gorilla who is always munching on reeds while teaching his pupil. it's a fantastic book.

Shay Stewart Bouley is his mom.

yes! so glad you listened to this

Have you ever listened to the records he released under his old name?

You need to check out Deca or Aesop

I like how thought provoking his music is. React to Mick Jenkins - The Waters.

Hell yes Prof. You rip

I would be honored if you reviewed by you man✊🏾

Just an FYI, Shay Stewart Bouley is Rory's Mom.

I thought the macadamia joke was funny.

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Knew he was a real one when he brought out the joe cool coffee cup

I did like this!

Billy woods moor mother review?

U ask if rap should be Poetry? Absolutely!! I dont listen to rap its not my style. but i just got done reading "Word Play"..by Charles (Chip) Higgins. I had tears ,it was so intense!!...and im not into rap! So YES ...I never would have enjoyed and experienced it had it not been in Poetry form...

if rap wants to be poetry, then it can be poetry! yes!!!! absolutely!

I think the line "Al Gore allegory in Allegheny..." is a way of referring to the prior line about security being a delusion as an Inconvenient Truth.

Viagra Boys next please.

Everyone has to defend rap at one time or another

Hip hop and poetry are a venn diagram. It's really simple imo

I wanna hear him and Nard2Hard get a track together!

couldnt you also take the control V angle and repurpose it to say that all rap today is a matter of copy paste, that theyre all the same and how he sees it at its very basic level of nothing but ctrl V christopher wallace might be too far for you, but is it too far for Ferreira? hmmmm

oatmeal cookies are the epitome of sweetness symbolically. you draw the line of diogenes but i believe that oatmeal cookies are a dionysian child. oatmeal cookies are, as you seem to describe at the end in different wordings, symbolic of the ephemeral.

rap LITERALLY stands for R.hythm A.nd P.oetry

I like the analysis but here's the thing though: Rhythm And Poetry is the what Rap actually means... It's not a new (admittedly, it isn't always évident)

You should review Travis Scott’s Rodeo album if you haven’t gotten to listen to it yet

Keep in mind the word “RAP” comes from the acronym “Rhythm and Poetry”

Short answer? Yes…

like you instructed, prof, i dipped out to hear milo direct -- PS: vpn to france bc us didn't play it watch?v=B_sQ3VRjyH8

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