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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

i watched Gully Boy yesterday and hip hop resonated with me for the first time https://t.co/y6I81WGQDm https://t.co/nh2YPLr28p

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

some reactions & observations: hip hop felt so reflective of their circumstances my first reaction to the rap battle was wtf, these are mean

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago
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“they’re just trying to find a chink in your armour, you just gotta not let it affect you bro” wtf this is the exact opposite of feeling your feelings, letting things get to you, feeling fully

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago
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1. but it reflected their circumstances. the world was going to—was telling them—they were shit everyday. how do you cope with that? it’s adaptive

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago
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2. he’s being taught to—even when the world is telling him differently, even when other people are telling him he’s shit—to stand by his inner voice and be convinced, speak from the inner truth of that

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

how do you speak from what you know[feel] to be true, even when the world is telling you you’re shit? that’s the Q hip hop answers [in the context of this movie, from my POV, etc]

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago
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he’s finding a way to make his inner voice loud and untouchable among the noise of the world https://t.co/pyypp7qZKx

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

or in fact, rebel against it the old-fashioned way—become increasingly unhappy with the rules until you act out! become a teenager. get into enough shit that the *actual environment rewards* finally start to feel bigger than the loud emotional voices that’d drown everything out https://t.co/cFBzW69mOk

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