54. "it's not the listener though. kind of" In response to In response to 39 Wed Jul-22-15 11:14 AM by bearfield
i always thought of it as rappers talking down to some imagined person of the herb persuasion. something like a non-corporeal and featureless avatar on which to shit upon so they feel better about themselves. or "you" is just a mechanism that rappers use to brag about the various things they do at a high skill level. or a combination of the two. i'm not really sure
you're not wrong btw. it's a really weird feature of rap that fans have been inoculated against. it just seems normal to us but i bet it's super off-putting to outsiders