DAD REACTS TO - Saba - PROM / KING 

This song hits harder in the context of the album.

This is so interesting, and I appreciate your dad's honesty. I had similar feelings about the song - it felt slow and all over the place, my ears and eyes clashing between what to hear and read. To get the maximum effect, this a song that has to be relistened to. What's interesting is how - I don't know - I listened to this song recently, and it really did hit. Ironically, initially, it wasn't the story, the rap, or the ability, but it was PROM's piano. There was something so intriguing in its chords and looping progression - like a camera slowly zooming in through a picture. In fact, that piano was my gateway for the song - the one that helped me break through the initial first impressions I had. Something about those piano noodles shot through my skeleton like I was just a child listening and taking it all in - bypassing any judgment of the beat, dissonance, or intellectual analysis. And that's when this song shines ultimately, almost like a revelation. The universality of loss, youngness, naivety, comradery, morality - how fast we can go away. 7 minutes of the song was about Walter and Saba, yet it could all just end in one minute. Genuinely an amazing song and a great reaction regardless.