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I've lived in the same apartment for 11 and 1/2 years and for quite a long time my upstairs neighbor played the same songs. over and over. at the highest possible volume with the boomiest possible bass. Sometimes it was going so hard that the glasses in my kitchen cabinets rattled. Honestly, it didn't really bother me, since my previous apartment was the 7 years I lived on top of two bars in Manhattan. I can identify like every Black Eyed Peas song by bassline alone after living on top of The Boiler Room for most of the 2000s.

So it wasn't really the noise that bothered me as so much that it was the same songs, over and over, the same three songs, but I couldn't identify them. All that was coming through was the bass, sticking my phone out the window and Shazaming didn't work. The only line I could really catch was something that sounded like "I can see that pussy from a mile away" which definitely wasn't right but certainly created an image.

So I just suffered through never ever knowing. But then one day at work I was just listening to like, spotify's hot 100 playlist or whatever (the mid 2010s were a big time for me exploring Popular Music) and then suddenly. I heard a song where I went. Wait. Wait. I recognize that flow. And it was Young Thug.

I went and listened through Young Thug's entire discography (like 30 seconds or so each) and when I found one of the songs my neighbor had played over and over.... hoo. Man. I have had some good sex in my life but nothing felt like the wash of relief and satisfaction from finally hearing the song in a clear, identifiable version. "I can see that bullshit from a mile away" was the line.

Some time later I was getting off the subway coming home from work and a young man was walking down the street in front of me, rapping loudly to himself, and I was like, ah, that flow sounds familiar, much like my upstairs neighbor's freestylings. And then that young man walked into my building in front of me and up one more flight of stairs than I did. Like seeing a cryptid. Tremendous.


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