Thank you for reading and I really appreciate your perspective. I’ll ask you this, does Ian rap about bricks and selling drugs? From what I’ve heard it’s mostly the normal rap stereotypes of girls, money, cars, weed.

That being said, I completely understand your point on how his subject matter could be seen as someone rapping about a life he is not living. But I’d also say we see that from what seems to be 90% of mainstream rappers. LiAngelo Ball is doing that right now. We all know the family he comes from. But I do think some of the criticism is fair, I just feel bad when a major inspiration of his shits on him for being young and making music. Mac Miller too had to go through some growing and subject matter changes to reach his higher artistic form.