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Look What This World Did To Us

Look What This World Did To Us

Chris Orrick is the Opposite of Easy Listening, the Poet of the Emergency Room

Jun 14, 2023
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I was taking a walk in a public park and I passed a picnic shelter surrounded by motorcycles and a cloud of marijuana smoke. Red Pill’s “Gin and Tonic” started playing and I slowed down to listen. I don’t recall questioning whether walking up uninvited to find the name of the song was a good idea, but that’s what I did.

I like rap, but I’ve never really been into it. I grew up in an upper-middle-class, white, suburb in the 1980s. Rap was not the music of my childhood and always on the artistic periphery as an adult.

Chris Orrick changed that.

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