More beauty from Grantland. Amos Barshad and ghostwriting in hip hop music. I love hip hop for its lyricism, so it's fun to think about how rather well-defined vocabulary, patterns, structures, and cadences sounds when using a different voice/timbre/pitch. Eazy's lines on the "Straight Outta Compton" with Ice Cube's voice? Album wouldn't be the same. Eminem doing all of "Forgot About Dre"? Loses its punch.
I feel like I should step it up more when it comes to recognizing these lines (especially considering I still buy albums, so I have liner notes to use to my advantage); I can hear when someone is using a ghostwriter, usually, but I never stop and think who might be actually writing the lyrics...
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