It may seem counterintuitive, but there comes a point when noise becomes beautiful — when the strain of pushing against the boundaries finally breaks through into a soaring, glorious burst of transcendent chaos. Rock musicians have known about this for years, dating back to the Velvet Underground or even before that, to the first kid messing around with a distortion peddle in a suburban garage. But hip-hop has been generally much slower to catch on.
Thankfully, the hip-hop outfit D