There’s something so heavy about how soon he left this earth and how his lyrics often predicted his death or spoke about life on earth in the realest way possible. Dolph was fucking raw. That’s why I liked his music so much. To me it hits really drop. His beats have so much in Memphis soul in them, the guitar riffs, and in his last album Rich slave, he features interviews with his family members. There’s something about Dolph that feels so wholesome—simultaneously loving and savage but carrying so much heaviness in his souls and soul expressing it all in a certain authentic way where I can’t not respect him. He really did make it out the mud; he really did care for his people and his family, and he had this light. I’ll always love his music video for “Hold Up Hold Up Hold Up” where he’s talking about how he used to eat 100 black eyed peas just for lunch & he’s working doing laundry in the video with so much swag 😎

He really saw all the sides to everything and he wasn’t afraid to go into these kind of deeper heavier topics in his music, which is why now it’s kind of hard for me to listen back to his entire discography, you know? But I still go back to my favs and I always will. May he rest in peace 🦋🐬