Post Malone

Ever heard the song Congratulations by Post Malone? It's a really nice rap actually. I first heard it while joyriding with my friends Migz and Carlos. I, who naturally wasn't a fan of  rap songs, didn't understand the lyrics to the song, so it kind of infuriated me. I tended to enjoy picking up the lyrics and sing along whenever the song played.

Every time I tried to listen as hard as I could, I never managed to get the lyrics to the darn song.

So I forgot about the song. Months later I keep thinking of the song. Nobody has been playing it anymore, I guess my brain just dug up the tune and tortured me with it with the last song syndrome.

After struggling with the tune for a day and a half, I gave in and searched for the song. I didn't know the title, so it took me a long while. Imagine the relief and the burden that was lifted from my chest when I found out the song's name and title.

You should really check out their music video. Weird, but strangely enough, entertaining.

Anyway, the point I'm writing about this is because since I did say that I love to write about music, wouldn't it be also nice to cover a little bit about the more modern and millenial part of music? After all, I am a millenial as well. And if you read the lyrics, despite a few grammatical hiccups here and there (I assume to maintain the lingo and the rythm that Post Malone had established for the rap), the message it gives you is actually profound.

It tells you that you can never get anywhere without working hard, something that a lot of people these days tend to take for granted. The song also tells you that you really are a nobody until you do something significant--it doesn't have to be good, or helpful sadly, but rather just doing something significant. Anything to make you famous really.

But I do love one quote that said

"They was never friendly, yeah

Now I'm jumping out the Bentley, yeah

And I know I sound dramatic, yeah

But I knew I had to have it, yeah

For the money, I'm a savage, yeah

Got me itching like a habit, yeah

I'm surrounded twenty bad bitch, yeah

But they didn't know me last year, yeah

Everyone wanna act like they important"

Basically it tells you that the road to success is never easy. Everyone will always try to discourage you and bring you down, "For your own good" they claim. They do not realize that they may be doing harm instead of help. Yet the best that came out usually did have to work hard. They had to go through shit, through so many problems before finally getting recognized for the work they did.

The last line, although is cut (because I want you to read the lyrics yourself) hit me as well. It is true. Everyone wants to show everybody else that they're important, but as a great teacher once taught me; you never get anywhere by acting like that. You gotta work hard and go through the toughest time, and even though you're on top, you gotta show them that you aren't, because only by bringing yourself down will you climb the ladder to success. That sounds cliche, I know, but can you believe it?

She was right.

Thanks, Post Malone, T'Stella, for today's lessons. 

P.S. the images here were just cut from the music video.

P.P.S. Post Malone's songs are actually really good, you ought to try them out, and this is coming from a nerdy blues-loving weirdo.