Rapper Marlon Craft uses platform to critique the loss of community
With a new album soon to drop, Marlon Craft is doing some heavy lifting. The title track “The Neighborhood” forms a critique of the displacement of community in the face of the internet’s distractions.
The Neighborhood: Rhyme and Value
Inspired by this disconnect, the lyricist’s approach to this loss of closeness is marked by deep-cut lines and a cadence that carries its weight.
“The truth is in the back, I’m the chauffeur / But I never learned to drive”
Aside from that, Craft identifies that he has a part to play, evidenced in lines like, “The gentrifier look just like me, so what’s my role in the neighborhood?” Over a smooth, entrancing composition, he unloads through similes and metaphors with contempt for the change, performed with acceptance and lamentation.
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