TDE president Punch has some thoughts about “demonic influences” in Hip-Hop. On Sunday (August 27), the label exec hopped on Twitter to address the state of the music industry today. In his opinion, demonism has become more and more prevalent. “The demonic influence is getting more and more blatant in this thing,” he wrote. “The gradualism was numbing, now it’s just out loud.”
2cool2blog went on to share the post on its official Instagram account. Judging by the comment section, fans seem to agree. “It took this post for some of y’all to realize it’s demonic spiritual warfare running rampant through music right now??” one person commented. Another person added, “[target emoji]…but y’all still gon be in these comments defending your favorite artists and making excuses. smh open your eyes!”
Moreover, the multi-hyphenate is not a man who minces his words. After DJ Akademiks made some disparaging remarks about SZA, he wasted no time clapping back at him. “Man I’ve been so conflicted the [past] couple of days as to address this dude publicly or not,” he expressed. “I’m not playing no internet games… He have to answer for those disrespectful things he said about SZA,” he wrote in a now-deleted Twitter post. However, the social media personality seemingly feels no way about it.
“None of y’all are Suge Knight,” he says in a recent livestream. “You don’t strike fear in my heart. There is no, ‘Oh my God, he’s going to get me!’ I did content about the biggest killers in the world in Chicago. I’ve talked about the worst people you could imagine… I won’t be sitting here scared of an older n***a who claims he’s a ‘thug.’ Mr. Punch from TDE, you didn’t have to delete your tweet.” He added, “I’m not scared of you. I don’t know nobody that’s scared of you and I don’t know nobody that would think you be doing nothing. So please, pipe down, and rather than delete the tweet, don’t send the tweet. Because if you look at my tweet history, I leave them up for all to see.”
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Taylor Swift is encouraging rising artists to stay away from reading social media comments too closely.
During a conversation with The New York Times about songwriting, the “Shake It Off” singer explained that although criticism can sometimes become a “creative writing prompt,” constantly checking comments online can leave artists overwhelmed by negativity.
“My favourite thing when I sit down with new artists or songwriters, I'm like, ‘Why are you reading your comments?’ Like, that's too much of it,” she said. “You're inundating yourself with too much criticism that doesn't really have a focus. But a little bit of it, you've got to just be like, this is part of (the job). Like, don't make this make you stop writing or make you edit yourself or whatever.”
Swift, 36, also shared that she often tells other musicians to channel criticism into music instead of firing back at people online or posting long responses in the Notes app.
“If it's an interesting point to you to kind of respond to, then that's a gift for you to be able to write something. Maybe you wouldn't have written something that day,” she continued. “But don't go to the Notes app and post it, like write (a song) about it. Make art about this. Don't respond to trolls in your comments. That's not what we want from you. We want your art.”
The global superstar went on to say that criticism has inspired some of the biggest songs throughout her career. She pointed to her 2014 hit “Blank Space,” saying it likely would not have happened without people constantly focusing on her dating life and creating “slideshow” style narratives about her relationships.
Speaking about her 2022 track “Anti-Hero,” Swift added, “That song doesn't exist if I don't get criticised for every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with or whatever.”
