Session Notes 6.30.25 // Kipp Stone Just Wants To Be Honest

There is tremendous reverance for a properly executed rap song about paranoia. From The Ghetto Boys' "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" to Cypress Hill's "Illusions", to a full wing of Eminem's early discography to... fill in the blank, there is always a spot for rappers trying to get away from their own psyches. 

Kipp Stone tackles the subject on "Intrusive Thoughts" from his newly released LP, I Ain't Want Nothin'. The album was released about a month ago. I continue to play the LP and find new bits and pieces that I didn't previously discover, a new rhyme scheme I didn't fully appreciate the first time, or a societal observation that hits home. I continue to marvel at Kipp's ability to wax poetic about his experiences and connect them to listener's experiences. He's low-key one of the best emcees making music right now, just a matter of time until the world catches on. 

On "Intrusive Thoughts" Kipp begs for honestly and truth, even if he doesn't want to hear it. It's not so much that he's seeing things that aren't there or having a psychotic break - it's that he can't stop thinking about what's left unsaid, what people really think.

"I think we should all speak candidly" he raps in the song's opening bars. Later in the record he states rather matter-of-factly, "If someone hated me, I would love to know, that way, I could leave your ass the f**k alone."

Kipp's search for relational clarity to silence a nagging voice in his head is a peace we've all sought at sometime or another. Kipp just has a more poetic way of talking about it.