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Posted by: Billie
Saturday November 22 2025
6:47pm
Second post in an hour and a half. I have a lot of things to say with no ears to listen. But i wrote this down in my notes app yesterday because its just so important to me. Kind of. 

Playas we aint the same im into caine and guns
Chopard with the fishes make the facelift numb...

Maybe the most menacing intro in all of hip hop. Shoutout VA. One day i will be back...

Another line thats been on my mind

Pyrex stirs turn to cavalli furs
Full length cat when i wave the kitty purrs

Anddd this one last but not least

Coke money clean thru merrill lynch
Accountant just gasp at the smell of it



         Posted by: Billie
Saturday November 22 2025
5:23pm
Ive been leaning into 2010s nostalgia recently. Been listening to Thank Me Later (album) and Take Care tracks like Practice and Make Me Proud. Cece’s Interlude makes me sad because i think Drake is too famous to ever make something as simple and awesome as that. Over the last few days ive also been embracing the Miguel nostalgia. All I Want Is You and Kaleidoscope Dream are some amazing albums. I feel like Miguel and Abel were two of the last genuinely solid contemporary r&b artists of the 2010s.



This song. Lotus Flower Bomb… i didnt get it when i was younger. I always used to skip it when it came on Pandora. It took me a minute to get around to it. Listened to it so many times today. Amazing song, very nostalgic, even if that nostalgia is hating it at first because i misjudged it as a 10 year old. Maybe one of the most romantic rap beats ever. If i was Solange and this was written about me, i would probably never feel anything close to this ever again.

I miss being a kid and finding all this music on internet radio. My parents listened to a lot of stuff but never really listened to anything r&b. The most r&b album they played around me was Sade’s Soldier of Love. But that is a really good album. It was fun to discover that i liked rap music and Drake was basically the coolest guy on Earth to me at this time. Shoutout Pandora. 

Its amazing that i got to first hand experience the peak of so many artists’ careers and watch their decline. #backintheday day people used to think Wale was next up. I havent heard too much from him outside of Ambition. Zain sent me Attention Deficit the other day and 90210 is a pretty awesome track. Wish i listened to it when it came out so i could have that nostalgia factor. The way that things make me feel has always been more important to me than objective ‘good’ art. I hate listening to music or watching movies with the purpose of ‘conquering’ or deeply understanding them if i dont care about them otherwise (film classes at Mizzou). If it sucks im turning it off. Sorry cameron winter. 

All this nostalgia makes me wonder how ‘good’ the music in the 2010’s actually was. I wanna say everything was objectively better. Not that it matters. I rarely listen to any newer r&b artists. I wish i did or could. It doesnt feel the same, the beats arent there, the vocal performance on BBL. That shouldnt even make sense but you know what i mean..

Gone are the days of A&R or a record label being relevant and artists like Aaliyah and Brandy who got their start in church choirs. Anyone with garageband on their iphone can be America’s next sweetheart.

Anyways. This is my first post on this stream of consciousness blog. I write bullshit like this all the time on other outlets. Ig stories, my notes app, in my performative moleskine. But i guess im expanding my digital footprint today for better or worse. Hope some of the things i end up writing about on here give you a new perspective or something to hate on or gawk at or be slightly entertained by. I have some bad takes and whack opinions so its okay to think that im crazy. But youre on my website and youre reading this, so you must care what i think at least a little. 

Thanks to all the haters i know g-4 pilots on a first name basis...