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// TRANS LUFFY RAP | Freeced [prod. Shwabadi] | One Piece AMV //
Fuck I love a motherfucker bumping scars across his chest
Fuck a fuck who says you're less unless you started like the rest
🏳️🌈IT'S PRIDE MONTH!🏳️🌈 Well it was when this song first came out. I've been busy, ok? Anyway, as usual, I've got a couple things to say about it!
Something I love about One Piece is that, whatever adorable queer headcanon you have about it, there's probably something in One Piece itself that's just as dope and inclusive. Luffy being trans may not be canon, but trans men certainly are canon to One Piece and I can't express just how heartwarming it always feels to know that in the gorgeous world Oda-sensei has created, the people I love the most would fit in perfectly.
Folks familiar with my music will know that TRANS LUFFY RAP is a successor to last year's GAY ONE PIECE RAP (which was shortly followed by GAY DEMON SLAYER RAP...I guess TRANS INOSUKE RAP must be next), a loudly queer track calling out homophobia and promoting pride through only the most out-of-pocket One Piece metaphors. For TRANS LUFFY RAP I went a little less explicit (aside from all the FUCKs) and a little more sweet but stayed just as loud.
Having Shwabadi's help on producing this track meant I could focus more on my writing and delivery, and I'm really happy with how it turned out: a little clever, a little cheeky, a lot catchy. It's always my favorite thing getting to work with my friends in person, and I was lucky enough to be in the studio with Shwab for this one doing a bit of sample selection, a bit of chopping, and a lot of standing over his shoulder describing things in vague terms until he made FL Studio (I'll learn that DAW one day I swear) do what I wanted. I was hoping for a banger and we got a banger. 'Nuff said.
I hope you enjoy TRANS LUFFY RAP! It's a love letter to One Piece, it's a love letter to one of my favorite headcanons, and it's a love letter to trans mascs of all shapes and sizes. Words can't express how deeply I love and care about you, my friends, but if I keep putting them to music maybe a sliver of that admiration will make it across.
One of the reasons why nerdcore is so cool is that it has the ability to change how you listen to music fundamentally.
I was talking to someone once about the different aspects of a Good Song, particularly musicality and lyricism. As a writer, I spent a long time only caring about whether a song had good writing—I'd listen to absolutely shit music, stuff that sounded like it had been recorded on a microwave by an overenthusiastic preteen, if the lyrics were cool enough. But when I started listening to nerdcore I'd find parody songs about, like, how hot anime waifus are—and there was Very Little lyrical value in a lot of that, but it was still made by Musicians. It had catchy rhytms and cool melodies and vocal delivery I couldn't stop listening to. And it made me realize there was more that made a song good than just emotionally evocative verse.
And ny friend I was talking to had the completely opposite experience. Before nerdcore, they never used to listen to what a song was saying—they'd hear a track a thousand times and never know what the lyrics were, purely appreciating it on a sonic level. But when they got into nerdcore, they were finding songs about topics they were invested in—it made them want to listen. It made them enjoy music on a new level.
I'm sure both these realizations could happen through other genres, but nerdcore feels like an especially good gateway into music appreciation.