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Sisyphean Cycles

Welcome back all! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #342. It’s good to be back. I have a lot to share in the coming weeks. For now, lets’ get into it. o(^▽^)o Please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Reach out and say hello at hello@digitallyliterate.net. Watch on YouTube Why…

Kendrick Lamar’s Scorcher of a New Album Is an Urgent Sermon for a Troubling Time

Kendrick Lamar’s Scorcher of a New Album Is an Urgent Sermon for a Troubling Time (Slate Magazine)

Kendrick Lamar’s new album DAMN. is all fire, no brimstone.

Then again, perhaps Lamar was right that they would subtract from the whole. No matter, ultimately, because listening to Damn already leaves this listener, at least, wrung out, down to the soul. Once he pimped a butterfly, and now he’s pinned a nation of bees. Here, the realness is the artistry, and vice-versa, and it makes all…