Jack White on which 'Star Trek' captain he's like in the studio and why hip-hop feeds his bold new sound
Jack White has been obsessed with the number three for as long as he can remember.
It famously animated his platinum-selling blues-punk band, the White Stripes, which he built around three instruments: voice, guitar, drums. And it's a symbolic cornerstone of his Nashville record label, Third Man Records, where employees wear uniforms of yellow, black and white.
Given his fixation, you'd expect that if there were one thing in current pop music to excite White, it would be the so-called triplet flow popularized by hip-hop trio Migos (and emulated by countless recent rappers).
White himself would expect it. But no.
"As much as I love the number three, I don't think the triplet cadence is that interesting," he said of the rhyming pattern in hits such as Migos' "Bad and Boujee" and Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow." "I do think it's a cool notion." Though he prefers a more varied, freewheeling delivery.
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