How Being Vague Gives You Extraordinary Creative Powers

Paul Cantor
4 min readOct 31, 2017

I was talking to a rapper friend recently. He’s a very popular artist, one of the most popular on the planet, if I’m just being honest.

I asked him about people picking apart his lyrics online, whether he felt any responsibility to explain himself.

“Not at all,” he said. “As an artist, that’s not something you should really get in the habit of…

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Paul Cantor

Wrote for the New York Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vice, Fader, Vibe, XXL, MTV News, many other places.