You have to decide now who's gonna get the aux on the way back home from a funeral!Mustafa The Poet
Summary
A straphanger drops a devastating hypothetical: you have to decide right now who gets the aux cord on the way back from a funeral. He's learned this lesson the hard way. His boy played "Codeine Crazy" on loop after their friend died, and now that Future track soundtracks every memory of his lost homie. The conversation turns philosophical fast. There are two kinds of post-funeral songs, he explains: ones that help you escape the grief and ones that make you face it head-on. He's team face-it, advocating for Lauryn Hill because "it's God conscious" and makes you contemplate faith and your own return. Kareem suggests Chlöe's "Pray It Away." The rider reveals he's actually making funeral music for the hood. His advice? Text the group chat now, pick your playlist curator before emotions run too high, because that drive home will define how you remember them forever.
Full Transcript
So what's your take? You have to decide from now who's going to get the AUX cord on the way back home from a funeral. 100% agree. You're going to be depleted and exhausted and defeated, and you're not going to be able to argue that decision when you're on your way back. It's going to be empty and silent, and it's going to sound track the memory of your dead homie forever. So right now, you text the group chat. You text the group chat and you say, "I give Kareem the permission to be the music holder." 100%. After I die, yeah, because right now you—I got one dead homie, and on the way back from funeral they played Codeine Crazy the entire time. My boy played it on loop, and now whenever I think about my dog, all I could think is Codeine Crazy soundtracking his death. That's fire.
Future is fire. I want them to play Future at my funeral. I need something else. I need Sufjan Stevens.
Okay, that's nice, but it's a little—it's a little solemn. You're right, though. Maybe it's like a hat on top of a hat if you're going sorrow on top of sorrow. True. So you need something large like—I'm trying to go up. There's two kinds of songs that are being played on the way back from a funeral. The one song is you trying to escape it, and the other song is you trying to face it, you know? And I'm always trying to face it. Like, I want to see it again, you want to feel in the form of a song. And then most of my boys, they're just trying to run away from it, so they'll play anything. They're playing Glorilla on the way back from the funeral.
Okay, I—I can't stand behind that. Lauryn Hill. That's a good one. You know why? Cause it's God conscious. It makes you contemplate faith. It makes you contemplate the truth. It makes you contemplate your own return. What is joyous, and there's still a lot of hope in it.
I would do Chloe. I don't know the music well enough to Pony Club. I'm keep on. I think that would hit. I don't know if that will work for me, but you just have to make the decision from now, yeah? Make the playlist. I have my play—most Alpha of mine, yeah. No, I'm making funeral music for the hood. That's the whole thing.