Tonally, he appears to be aiming for a sort of post-Future bleat, alternately crooning and hollering via warbly autotune, all over a store-bought beat. In the video, he prances around in a grocery store after-hours and malingers in a sports car.

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But mostly, it’s the lyrics here that cement Paul’s status as world’s worst human, a fact he counteracts by listing every good thing he’s ever done that was not covered by the news. Yes, fourth estate, where were you when this YouTube star was emailing depressed fans, or “whippin’ up meals on Thanksgiving,” or, um, not talking shit about Selena Gomez? He adopts a clipped, marble-mouthed cadence, presumably in impersonation of the Atlanta rappers he’s attempting to emulate, claiming for himself an end-of-Scarface paranoia about how the news is out to get him. It’s self-victimizing whininess mixed with braggadocio, which is a perfect representation of the ambient temperature of American culture in 2017. He appears unable to imagine a cosmos that exists outside of himself, “the haters,” and social media.

Anyway, to be clear, participating in several charitable events or even voluntarily doing kind things on occasion does not fundamentally counteract being an awful person; these things can exist side by side in the fullness of a person’s character. However, creating a rap track laundry-listing all of those large-hearted actions does counteract them, making them seem less like Christian acts of good will and more like isolated events that Paul marked in a ledger as if in preparation for the point at which he’d be forced to publicly reckon for his awful, proud, privileged existence. It is impossible to guess how many good deeds he will now have to do to counteract the nefariousness of releasing a piece of music like this into the world, but rest assured, if he attempts them, we will eventually hear about it from him. Why else would you do something good in the first place?

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[via Daily Dot]