He built buzz by hopping on unexpected instrumentals and reinventing them in his own distinctive style, as well as recording originals, delivering his gorgeous, melodic hooks with a laid-back nonchalance. Image via Complex Original. He wasn't just dissing Jones and bragging about sexual encounters with the rapper's girlfriend "Chrissy touched it in Miami, while you was doing tracks" , but also sent shots at hip-hop's reigning king at the time, Lil Wayne "Played with biscuits as a boy, and never tried to shoot myself. Tropez, rather than an activity you do sitting alone on your couch in your underwear watching Rugrats re-runs. His matter-of-fact statements about his conflicts with Jones, trouble with the law, and his mother's drug addiction are granted stark power, not through the particular lyrical details, but because the emotional truth of his music hid between rapper and song, a method of implying much deeper emotions through subtle understatement on an unforgettable musical canvas.
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