Since 2022 Yeat’s influence has diffused and disseminated throughout all the rap world, a revolution that answers to boring rap pre-2022. And even while his influence is everywhere, he still is very much his own entity. As I tend to say, he godfathers rap right now, he drives the stake into the ground and marks the end of the road for rappers like kendrick lamar, drake, j cole, 21 savage, rae sremmurd, memphis rappers, fat rappers, kodak black, and you get the drift. Rappers that survive Yeat’s reign include future, travis scott, gunna. And future inspired Yeat; Yeat said so himself. All one’s gotta do is turn on Massaging Me by Future to see why. He’s got the sheer ability of Mozart with the society-altering influence of Beethoven, and the characteristics that Mozart and Beethoven shared. He’s taken Classical Period opera/singspiel form and put a contemporary twist on it. That is 90% of his rap. In consummate pioneering style. Every time I see a new building or bridge get built, Yeat’s music appears. It’s Yeat’s world and the individual’s choice to reside in it. But as per the words of Yeat himself, 2093 is not for everybody and words can’t be truer. The man has truly emerged from the nothing and to consummate influence like Pope Boniface VIII. How he makes a C Minor masterpiece like Ducked Off (the type of song I play Yeat for) and a D Major masterpiece like Heliman to show off his capabilities, is like an inverted replica of like how when Mozart made a D Major masterpiece (the common Mozart) and a C Minor fugue to display his musical mastery. Yeat applies the musical principles of the 18th century but no one realizes it. Of course he’s totally distinct from everything pre-Yeat, but the musicality he implements only coincides with the most musical period of music besides Baroque and Romantic: the Classical period and its sonata forms. That’s why his works sound “musical” and rich in motifs and themes and the so-called “adlibs”. And the lyrics of his songs are very concise and match the libretto of any aria (see Heliman for a major key fluffy aria and Ducked Off for a suspenseful aria). Yeat composes in rondo and sonata form.
