EMERGENCE

...But “fucking amazing” isn’t just the result of Invincible’s politics; her social activism; her cutting dissections of racism and sexism; her self-owned fair-trade, cooperative economics-based label; her ability to contextualize gentrification and urban decline in a global context without being reductive; her ambitious and novel willingness to rap about people, rather than herself (mostly); or her endless undercutting of academic lingo that shrouds a lot of the issues she discusses with non-populist language. All of those things are awesome, and fuel the sheer immediacy of the music here, but they’re icing on the cake of just what an amazing rapper she is. Like, best period, since…I don’t even know.

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