Rhetorical Rappers
The music juxtaposes acoustic instruments with electronic beats. The natural symphonies of string instruments contrast the artifical beat is metaphoric of the symphonies of positive and negative, light and dark, life and death.
Their musical is almost Shakesperian. Their vulgar (using this word with neutral/positive connotations) diction is contrasted by the ligter accoustics and amplified by the equally bass heavy beats. Their candance creates cconsistant chantswhich amplify the anger and pain and power of their diction. The majority of their music uses iambic pentameter and anapest hexameter. In a review of their I Wanna Die in New Orleans album, which was sampled throughout their EP Aliens Are Ghosts, their music was described as “rippity-dippity-rippity-dippity-rippity-dippity triplet flows”.
Their lyrical bluntess concerning heavy subjects aids with engaging the intense negative emotions. By openly discussing them Scrim and Ruby… in an interview Scrim stated that “A lot of people take it as emo, or depressed music, or negative music… it’s really just connecting. It’s therapy, through music”.
Their status as a controversial groups contributes to their rhetorical power. Their heavy usages of Christian God and Devil iconographies are often labled blashpemous. They employ this in large part because of this specific effect, and has the affect of unifying victims, via upfront representation, of society’s prejudices against those struggling with poverty, mental health issues, and drug abuse. They’re often accused of romantacizing suicide and face criticism for speaking so consistantly and bluntly when their audience includes plenty of young members. However, the fact that their music adressess multi-faceted aspects of death by suicide contradicts this.