I hated this song when I first heard it. The whole lopsided hip hop/rock/poetry thing is definitely not my steez, plus Saul William’s nasal voice was absolutely grating.

But, for the life of me, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It haunted me. That staccato-beat, how it turns on/off into a dance club banger and especially that wonderful “I gave hip hop to white boys when nobody was looking / found it locked in a basement when they gentrified Brooklyn” line.

Saul Williams - Grippo

Well? Your thoughts?