Imagine if you’d only ever heard of Donald Trump in rap songs. Strangely, the infamy of Trump and the emergence of rap music had already been flowing in parallel for more than 20 years. One of the earliest rap songs to reference Donald Trump was "My Word is Bond" by Ice-T, pictured here in 1989. ‘Stacking paper like Trump’As rap saturated the public consciousness in the ’90s, its leading lyricists dropped Trump’s name in soon-to-be-iconic songs. If rap music serves as an ode to existence in all of its intricacy, Earl was living in a purgatory that had lost its detail.

Source: Washington Post November 06, 2019 15:39 UTC