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Becoming a Rapper: The Freestyle Bit
from #188 - Best of Patreon Vol. 1 | The Tim Dillon Show · #188
4 min
Tim jokes about breaking into hip-hop as a genre, riffing on rap tropes, then does an improvised rap freestyle blending club bragging with dark political commentary about corporate power and Chris Hedges references, ending with an absurd Exxon-Mobil punchline.
- Tim considers what kind of music he'd make if he became a recording artist, suggesting hip-hop.
- Discussion of hip-hop as a genre now dominated by Black artists who made it cool.
- Tim agrees that unfunny people become successful comics, so rapping shouldn't be harder.
- Tim shifts the rap's vibe, moving from club narrative into societal collapse commentary.
- Inverted totalitarianism rant embedded in the rap, referencing corporate state ownership and Chris Hedges.
- Rap escalates into graphic descriptions of systemic violence, torture, and child murder.
- Tim pivots to explicit chants about ExxonMobil and oil corporations as the bit reaches peak absurdity.