Chapter 2270 Gotham Music Festival (Part 2)

The song "King of Gotham" tells a relatively complete story, but it is actually very simple to explain. It is nothing more than an old gangster who was angry about the conflict with other gangs. He felt that he was still in good shape, so he gave up his peaceful retirement life and had to fight with others with real knives and guns. As a result, he was shot and died on the street.

Logically speaking, this kind of plot will not have a market in gangster rap, because most civilized people listen to rap not to find resonance at all, they like the violent elements in rap.

Just like some people read martial arts novels because they think that the morality of the rivers and lakes and the pleasure of revenge are very satisfying, as if after reading them, they can rob the rich and help the poor like those heroes, and can partially dispel their resentment of being exploited by their superiors in reality.

The same is true for rap. Listening to rap is like having used a gun to smash the heads of those who have a grudge against you, so even if it is more lyrical rap, there must be an offensive part. Of course, the main perspective of the rapper must be the final winner, and everyone else is garbage.

But the story written by Gotham Boy is really too unpleasant. The protagonist is an old man, and he was defeated by others, and it was his own fault. The whole story is just a fantasy of a dying man. The violent elements are very obscure, and there are too many mental disorder plots. There is really no excitement.

But the melody of this song is quite catchy, and it sounds like it has a strong Gothic style, as if it is always shrouded in a layer of wet fog, making it difficult to distinguish between dreams and reality.

The drum beats in the second half are extremely strong, combined with the continuous flashing of the lyrics describing the picture, plus Gotham Boy's angry tone and exquisite rhyme at the end of the words. Even if you don't understand the content, it is a good song that you will hardly slip away once you hear it.

The first step is to keep the audience. As the audience listens, they will feel that the story of this content sounds a bit wrong?

Although everyone knew that Gotham was bad before, they didn't know how bad it was and how bad it was. However, in this song, the first half of the song depicts the living conditions of the lower class in a very realistic way, making everyone realize how outrageous this city is.

The second half is more profound. Putting aside those fantasy plots that seem like mental illness, the more realistic thing is that the criticisms against the ills of the gang system are reasonable.

This also makes people realize how the old people in Gotham who have come from the heyday of the gang view this system. They are not passionate at all, and they are not shouting to shoot anyone. They are just full of pessimism and despair.

This strong tragic color almost makes people breathless, but before people react, everything has changed again, and a new era has arrived.

Although it does not specifically say where it has improved, it can be seen from those seemingly complaining words that the gang system is being gradually replaced, and the people at the bottom have more things to do.

The hopeful picture description is in sharp contrast to the previous depression and darkness, but just when the audience was secretly happy, the old man died. He didn't have time to enjoy the benefits of the new era, and died in the minute before dawn.

And the most exciting thing is that after his death, Gotham saw the light again.

So many ups and downs, ups and downs, despair and hope, hope and despair, listeners feel like they are on a roller coaster.

At the end of the song, almost everyone who has heard this song is silent, feeling that their brains have been severely crushed.

Listening to it for the second time, especially looking at the lyrics carefully, you can grasp many details. It is full of metaphors for the social system, and there is excessive anger under the tragedy.

When a city becomes a complete tragedy, the magma hidden under the volcano, which is whitewashed by the appearance of order, has never been extinguished. How much they have been suppressed, how much shocking anger they can burst out now.

This city is like a ridiculous joke, dark and depressing, absurd and bizarre, like a whole living tragedy.

But the protagonist in the story of Gotham Boy, after seeing countless tragedies in his life, still chooses to write his anger with blood. He doesn't need to go, but he must go, because this is the last shot left for him by countless people like him who have cleared the last obstacle with their lives.

This tells everyone that if you want to fight against the cold rain of this dark world night after night, you must never merge into madness, because there are still warriors who rely on the warmth in their chests to get through to dawn after dawn.

And this album is like the darkest night of this crazy city. After the rain stops, the winner who overcomes fate roars at the morning light shining on him for the first time.

The easiest passion to burst out in this world is revolutionary passion, and the most difficult to extinguish blood is revolutionary blood. Everything in Gotham is amazingly revolutionary.

The good news is that they succeeded and they are still alive.

For the survivors, when they pour all the anger they have accumulated in countless nights and the indescribable touch and joy after they see the light again into the song, they naturally form art that no one can surpass.

This art deeply shocked the world.

After listening to the entire album "King of Gotham" for the first time, rappers on the East Coast expressed their desire to meet this talented boy, but unfortunately, no matter how rebellious they are, they still cherish their lives. If he doesn't come out, they dare not go in.

But after the news that Gotham was going to hold a music festival came out, they could no longer sit still. They thought that since the Gotham government was confident in hosting such a large event, safety should be guaranteed.

Even if there were so many tourists, it might not be their turn to be shot. Maybe they could get more inspiration by wandering around the city.

In this way, many well-known East Coast rappers arrived in Gotham a few days before the music festival, including Biggie and Puffdaddy.

Puffdaddy, Chinese for "Puff Daddy", is a famous American rap producer and one of the godfathers of rap. The other one is of course from the West Coast. He wanted to meet this mysterious Gotham kid the most, but most of them were out of the need to revive East Coast rap.

As for Biggie, he was more interested in the other's creative method.

Fans who have listened to the last album of this big guy before his death should know that in "Ready To Die", chaos and evil always exist. Although Metropolis has replaced New York in this universe, it does not mean that there is no alcoholism, drug trafficking and robbery in this bright city.

As long as it is an American city, it is difficult to avoid these things. As long as there are slums and chaotic neighborhoods, there will be no gangs. Biggie also said in the album that he saw Superman flying in the sky, but unfortunately the ground is the same as usual.

If you have to make an evaluation on the theme of this album, it is probably to survive and do your best to survive.

So it can be imagined that this is also a rap album with relatively dark and desperate content, which is different from the East Coast's previous more sinister and cold aggressive style.

Biggie is still exploring, and recently he has been entangled in trivial matters and can't get away. His creation has also reached a bottleneck. He feels that he and this Gotham kid must have common topics. Maybe after the two of them have a conversation, the new album will have new inspiration.

So he even arrived earlier than Puffdaddy, just to find this mysterious Gotham kid before the music festival started.

But unfortunately, Gotham is really a big place. Even if this place is much better, it is not like other slums in other cities. Biggie was robbed on the first day he came here, and his credit card was stolen for more than 6,000 US dollars.

Normal people should call the police, but unfortunately, the big guy is also a gangster. More importantly, his upbringing makes him know that a big black man like him walks into the police station without doing anything or saying anything. The radical police will shoot him, and the conservative police will think that the radical police are too conservative.

In this era, the black-white conflict in the United States is still very intense. The regional segregation between blacks and whites is quite serious. Most people of different skin colors can only mix in their own territory. Blacks have problems with blacks, and whites have problems with whites. Whoever dares to mix with them will be in trouble.

But it's not like that in Gotham. In Gotham, no matter if you are black, white or chocolate, anyone can do the robbery, because the stereotype is that only people with dark skin will be in big trouble.

Biggie just realized this because the person who just robbed him was a white man, but according to his rich experience in robbery, most robbers will not run far after robbing the wallet, and will throw away everything except the money.

Now he is still relatively rich, so he doesn't care about that little money. He directly followed the robber's escape route to find the documents in his bag, which also contained the concert tickets.

As a result, he chased the robber all the way and didn't see the bag. In this way, he lost his driver's license and tickets. He didn't have cash on him to rent a car, and it was obvious to the naked eye that if he did his old job here, he would be beaten to death too easily, so he could only return to the hotel in disappointment.

Here we have to mention that Gotham robbers are different from most other cities. Most robbers in other cities are greedy for money, while Gotham robbers are just brain-twitching. Sometimes they don't want money, they just want you to have no money.

Although the situation in Gotham is getting better now, the generation that was polluted by darkness has not died out after all, and is still the main labor force in the city, so the overall spiritual atmosphere of the city is still worrying. If the gangs come, they will curse.

Like Bigge, there are many people who are looking for the most popular Gotham boy. Logically speaking, Gotham's tourism industry is in full swing, and Batman can be invited to stand guard, so why doesn't the Gotham boy sing a few lines on the radio?

But until the opening day, no one has heard of his whereabouts. Ordinary people are not too anxious. Anyway, they have tickets. Even if they can't see him at the concert, he will definitely show up at the rap competition held on the third day. Just watch it then.

But rappers are not like this. As mentioned before, the East and West Coasts are in a fierce war of words. Almost all singers have been threatened by the other side, and the entire American rap music circle is on the verge of breaking out.

Because of this, the Gotham Music Festival had more rappers from the East and West Coasts than the Grammys. In addition to the East Coast singers, of course, the West Coast bands were also there.