THE cultural event of the year, according to august commentators and heavyweight intellectuals, was when that one rapper called the other one a paedophile.
Serious people who think about art seriously while steepling their fingers beneath their chins have agreed that Not Like Us, the song containing the accusation, is comparable to the premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest in terms of its cultural impact.
Professor Thomas Logan, a doctor of literature at Cambridge, said: “The moment when Kendrick Lamar said ‘Hey Drake, I hear you like ‘em young,’ galvanised the arts like no other. There is now only before Not Like Us and after it. It changed everything.
“The sheer weight of incisive dialectic cannot be denied. In literature there is Shakespeare, Dickens, Joyce and now Lamar, who for me has surpassed all of them.
“When he said ‘Certified Lover Boy? Certified paedophiles’ was the moment was when the rest of the Western canon became redundant. Every newspaper, music publication and the Grammys committee agrees. This track was humbling, edifying and vital.
“This is the high point of all art in the 21st century. Our Picasso, our Welles, our Tolstoy. When history remembers, it will remember Not Like Us. All else will be a footnote.”
He added: “That unpleasant man who called me a paedophile on Twitter? No, that was base, cheap and unwarranted. Not comparable even in jest.”
