There isn’t a category of music more condescending than so-called children’s music. It presumes young people lack imagination, that they largely comprehend music as educational, that their interests are circumscribed and almost unrelentingly twee. And so here is 13-year-old Matt Ox, product of 10,000 SoundCloud links, delivering a new album, “OX,” that’s utterly plausible as contemporary hip-hop. Through a quirk of internet fate last year, he rocketed from observer to participant and peer. And now he’s rapping alongside the elegantly quirky Valee, delivering high-quality simulacrum with a young-boy twist:Get a bag!

Source: New York Times November 02, 2018 16:37 UTC