“I bet there are Wordle rap songs on TikTok right now,” said Open Mike Eagle. “I’ve had to stop myself from writing one.'
Another big fan of Wordle is Questlove, who’s gone so far as to modify his Twitter handle to include “5 letters only,” and who played the game on a recent episode of. Last month, the Roots drummer and Oscar-nominated director hinted at its potential for creative inspiration, tweeting, “My new system: put a new song on, and first word I hear starts it.”
The idea of limitation as freedom goes back to Miles Davis, who thought a note or melody had to first be contained within a concise, rigorously delineated structure before it could flourish as a more adventurous, expansive creation. The same ethos got passed down from there to’s luminaries.
One of the best things about both thought-provoking games and rhymes is the way they disprove the notion that we live in a dumbed-down, all-emojis culture — summed up by a dubious meme currently circulating with the caption “I still don’t understand Wordle, Bitcoin, TikTok, NFTs, and new rappers.” It’s a cheap laugh for self-described “washed” people who enjoy broadcasting their distaste for the Internet’s latest fixations, be they new games or rappers born afterbecame a thing.
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