Post by Keondez Robinson

You hear Reuben Vincent name Basquiat and think it's just an art reference. Go one layer deeper. Basquiat was a Black artist who reached the highest levels of a white-dominated market and got consumed by it. He gained the world. Reuben names him on purpose, then says he's choosing the other path through the same door. That's the whole second half of the song. Become the cause, get the provision, and keep the soul that did the choosing. The discipline isn't the getting. It's the holding. What's the profit if these people gain the world and lose they soul. He asked the oldest question there is, in the middle of a Charlotte rap verse.