Honky Rap, Part 2: Baby Dayliner
Baby Dayliner is the other artist I’ve been listening to lately who makes rap music as if restructured by whitey (see Honky Rap, Part 1). What differentiates Baby D from The Fiery Furnaces, and from the average hip-hop artist, though, is really just his taste.
When he sings, he doesn’t find enough notes to really qualify as singing, not that he’s missing any notes. He kinda talks with a bit of melody, which is why I call it rap, and yet he also kinda croons. On “Whodunit?” he concludes the bridge with whoa whoa shoobadoo-badoo/yeah yeah shoobadoo-ba hey/whu’ whu’. CD Baby refers to him as a 21st century Sinatra. But he may just as well be an early 20th century Jay-Z.