"Smoking on My Ex Pack" is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA (pictured) from her second studio album, SOS (2022). It is one of the album's three rap tracks, built around hard-hitting drums and a sped-up sample of a 1980s ballad. Before the album's release, SZA was viewed as an R&B; artist who made melancholic music aimed at a female audience, or "sad girl music". Disillusioned, she conceived "Smoking on My Ex Pack", among other songs, to combat such narratives, which she believed was stereotyping of her as a Black woman. With the track, she experimented with more lyrically and sonically aggressive music, making a foray into hip hop. "Smoking on My Ex Pack" speaks positively of her own sex appeal and negatively of her ex-lovers, reveling in SZA's braggadocious, taunting persona: one lover has his penis ridiculed. Critics were positive about the new sound, and they deemed the lyrics candid and scathing enough that she had the potential to become a fully fledged rapper.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1957:
En route from San Francisco to Honolulu, Pan Am Flight 7 crashed into the Pacific Ocean due to unknown causes, killing all 44 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_7
1971:
English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which became one of the best-selling albums worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV
1974:
British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day after allegedly murdering his children's nanny Sandra Rivett. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan
2020:
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Battle of Shusha, reclaiming the town after 28 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shusha_%282020%29
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
felon: 1. (criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime. 2. (obsolete) An evil or wicked person; also (by extension) a predatory animal regarded as cruel or wicked. 3. (chiefly poetic) Of a person or animal, their actions, thoughts, etc.: brutal, cruel, harsh, heartless; also, evil, wicked. 4. (by extension) Of a place: harsh, savage, wild; of a thing: deadly; harmful. 5. (obsolete, rare) Obtained through a felony; stolen. 6. (pathology, veterinary medicine) A small infected sore; an abscess, a boil; specifically, a whitlow (“infection near or under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/felon
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I saw that God doeth all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God shewed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well. --Julian of Norwich https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich