I made a tweet the other day, about how Lorde is my favorite rapper. I was with a group of my friends at the time, and we started having this discussion about Lorde, how good she is, and what she represents in the scope of modern day pop music. We talked about how different she is than the pop music we all grew up with. I’m 21, so I grew up with NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys. The difference between that and Lorde is… Lorde is damn near a rapper. She encompasses all of the characteristics. She even said **** a real name (Ella Yelich-O’Connor), and went for the hard ass AKA.

She stands for something.

Lorde will speak her mind. But that’s not the only component of her quick tongue that makes her rapper-like. What she’s saying actually matters. She’s spoken out in favor of feminism, describing what our pop culture does to wrongfully perpetuate damaging ideas to young girls. It is 100 percent hip-hop to have a message, to be socially conscious, in one way or another, even if it isn’t as commonplace as it used to be. Not giving a **** enough to decide to swim against the waves is some pure rapper ****.

Even if you don’t agree with what she’s saying, you have to admit: during a time when pop stars are so media trained that they don’t even seem human, Lorde is at least speaking her mind.

"I’m not trying to be anyone’s role model, because I’m a young person and I **** up,” she said in the same interview. That sounds like some **** Pac would’ve said.

She’s had beef.

Tyler, the Creator—in a very Tyler, the Creator move—took to Instagram to post a picture of Lorde and her boyfriend at the beach, with the caption: “Hhahahahahah.” She responded on Twitter within an hour, saying directly to @****tyler, “Was this supposed to make me feel something?” Most actual rappers would’ve done some subtweet ****, because they’re *****. Nope. Not Lorde.

On Selena Gomez, she quipped: “I’m a feminist, and the theme of her song is, ‘When you’re ready, come and get it from me.’ I’m sick of women being portrayed this way.” Selena Gomez said some **** back, but who cares, that was a “Control” verse. No response needed. She had similar criticisms of Lana Del Rey’s male dependency in her lyrics. In an industry full of people walking on eggshells, constantly trying to save face, its refreshing to have some Kanye-like honesty on the pop side of things.



She brings vivid lyricism to the table.

As soon as it really sunk in with me that the first lyric of “Royals” was “I’ve never seen a diamond in the flesh / I cut my teeth on wedding rings, in the movies,” I knew I was about to hear some **** I’ve never heard before. Now that we know more about her, we know her affinity for literature and we can better appreciate her proficiency in putting words together. Another one of my favorite lyrics from her was “Buzzcut Season” (which is her alias for summertime), where she says “I remember when your head caught flame”—for that to be the first line of the song is so epic. When I listen to “400 Lux,” I really feel like she’s taking me through New Zealand, just like I feel with most of her songs. It’s done in such a poignant, colorful way that I can only really compare it to Nas’ painting pictures on Illmatic and It Was Written. She really takes you right to those places, just as Nas would.

Originally posted by GhostHaus

Please, Lana was more of a rapper on the Born to Die album