Rejected titles for this piece include ‘My Mind’s Playing Tricks On Me,’ ‘Mentalists Making Magnificent Music’ and ‘Insane In The Membrane: Great Rappers With Poor Mental Health.’
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: How Mentally Ill Rappers Often Make The Illest Music
Not sure if it’s mental illness that results in good art, or the pain involved in creating that illness / behaviour or the experiences leading to such conditions.
Which arists are or have been a bit crazy and which were just high or even acting? From Kool Keith to Prodigy to so many others.
Could’ve called it Mentalillmaticness