Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins isn’t someone you might first pick as a music veteran capable of offering some unusual yet penetrating insight on modern rap music, but that’s certainly what he did in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe posted yesterday.
The topic of conversation was Yeat, a rapper who has become massively popular for his slurry of debauchery, despondency, and raw energy.
After playing Corgan a Yeat song, Lowe asked him for his thoughts. Corgan went on to muse about the urge to tear the world apart and find fulfillment in the face of slow and inexorable collapse.
Read his response below via Stereogum. It’s important to note that, contrary to many commenters’ thoughts, Corgan is not suggesting that Yeat consciously endeavored to put such heady thoughts in his music, but rather, that these concerns are reflected in how it sounds..
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