From what I can tell he just seems like some libertarian who wants to pick fights. His top song (cover above) is called genocide and features exclusively people that seem to be implied to be Soviets. I expected some horseshoe theory, but the songs just him complaining about haters plus some Nazi related jokes. He’s got a song called Chinese propaganda (feat. MKULTRA), and at first it seems like he could just be responding to the haters on Twitter by joking about his XI Bucks, but then he talks about Taiwan and “our supreme leader” and I’m not sure. If he knows what MKULTRA is maybe he’s not totally ignorant. He also has a song called Isis type beat, which seems like a respectable shitpost, and it reminded me of Yugopnik talking about Isis edits going hard. I did some googling, and all I got of his politics are he is representative of the ambiguous “American melting pot.” Thoughts? Edit: weird YT short of his-https://youtube.com/shorts/W4PrmKB0FX8?feature=share
TLDR on Ghostmayne, I don’t know his music like that so I can’t say.
What I CAN say is that on one hand, I really like dark alt rap shit, I myself make some and a lot of my favorite artists make some. But I don’t like darkness for the sake of darkness, especially if it’s people just saying vile shit but who have never actually lived through anything they rap about.
A lot of people from the whole $uicideboys side of the genre tend to be toxic bratty vapid edgelords with no real life experiences or perspective so I reflexively hesitate around anybody whose name floats around those spaces. I will say i have liked songs from both GM and $Bs, just not a LOT of their peers.
It would be cool to hear more occultism in alt rap, but as it stands I feel like most of the occult stuff in alternative society is just aesthetic showboating and consumerism.
What artists would you recommend from this “dark alt rap” genre?