If the music sounds violent—like “Bring the Mother-fuckin’ Ruckus”—that gives the listener a chance to get his violence out into the air. But if you have a violent lyric on a smoothed-out beat, that violence goes straight into your mind. If you’re saying, really quietly, shit like “So I saw the motherfucker and I shot ’em . . . And I knew when he dropped that I got ’em . . .’ all with a smoothed-out flow? Over R&B beats? You’re not getting it out, you’re not releasing that chi. You’re getting enticed, the pressure is building.
