While the album came from love, not every track is a love song.
, a mainstay of the Denver rap scene, has long admired Pablo Picasso. He also sees the painter as the fine-art equivalent of one of his favorite contemporary hip-hop artists.
While Picasso obviously served as the inspiration for Arnold's MC name, the artist's famous"Blue Period" also heavily influenced Arnold's new album,Picasso's Blue Period was an unexpected deviation from his past work and the aesthetic trends of his time, as is Arnold's."The Blue Period was cool to me because I saw the vulnerability in it.
The problem, according to Arnold, is that the tough-guy rappers who are currently en vogue tend to encourage and perpetuate toxic masculinity."I feel like a lot of artists — predominantly male artists, and more predominantly Black male artists — don't have the room to be themselves. If they take that room, they get called feminine. All of a sudden, people make it seem like it's feminine for a man to show their emotions or to be emotionally literate," he laments.
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