Right off the bat, the film pitches its audience an unexpected and unapologetically quirky Billy Wilder throwback framing device that puts a new spin on some of the show’s most cosmically ambitious themes: the insistence that every person, everywhere, has an equally rich and mythic inner life, and the teased suggestion of supernatural transcendence beyond death-an afterlife from which the world of the living might be observed through an uncanny veil mimicking cinema itself. But we do get this, a remix of a 2018 Drakeo/Greedo track that features an atypically straightforward Earl Sweatshirt sounding more California than ever: “Fuck the DA, free the Ruler/ Sex cancelled, I went right for that medulla/ Talking spicy hella easy, niggas hide behind computers/ Talking ’bout some he gon’ fight me, it’s unlikely, he a tulip.” Free Drakeo and Greedo and put them into a studio with Earl we need more of this.To describe verbatim the first-or-so minute of The Many Saints of Newark would be to spoil not only one of the film’s more audacious twists, painstakingly concealed by pre-release publicity materials, but also one of the most shocking story developments from the final episodes of The Sopranos. (Jeff Weiss has been all over the Drakeo story his latest update on it is here.) So we don’t get any new Drakeo songs. Earl Sweatshirt & 03 Greedo)ĭrakeo, the LA rap cult hero, is still on trial for his life, and his case doesn’t seem to be any closer to concluding. Drakeo The Ruler – “Ion Rap Beef (Remix)” (Feat. I think of Scarface as a true living legend, one of the greatest artists - in any genre, in any medium - of my lifetime. But the whole saga brings home a certain urgency. (He tends to stay quiet on social media.) It seems like Scarface will probably be OK. Scarface did that interview with Ludacris four days ago, and I haven’t seen anything on his condition since then. I’m going to have to get a transplant, and then go on dialysis or whatever.”Īll of this is sobering as hell. ( Narcos is “clichéd,” sayeth Scarface.) He enthused about all the Instagram Live living-room sets from old-school DJs - D-Nice, DJ Scratch, Lord Finesse, ?uestlove - that have been lifting his spirits: “That saved me, bro!” But he’s still not better: “I’m not out the woods yet. He joked about all the Netflix shows he’s been watching. (Back when he was president of Def Jam South, Scarface signed Luda the two go way back.) In that second conversation, Face’s voice was fuller, and his spirits seemed higher.

A day later, Scarface did a similar Instagram Live conversation with Ludacris and sounded much better.

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