Latent

Latent

Unnoticeable minutia cumulating in obvious effect.

There’s a way that Tyler the Creator uses infinitesimal syncopation like a signature. His drums affect an unsettling lurch, more distinguishable in his earlier, darker songs but nonetheless continually present in the new-age jazz fusion he’s producing now. It’s a quality you experience, rather than notice, a way he can offer the answer to what you feel without offering the answer why—inherent but difficult to focalize.

Latent

Unmistakable signs cumulating in an unfulfilling whole.

This is what makes Paul Pogba so controversial. You see, it takes exactly two highlights reels to assess quality of a player. Repetition in the second video, while not damning, is a tell-tale sign of a thinness, or an expectation, at the very least, of something seen to inform something unseen—a 40-yard long ball a monogram of a larger, unfolding identity. Pogba dispels traditional latency, showcasing a breadth of proven quality—proof of talent—without displaying it week in and week out. Potential you’ve dreamed of makes your mouth-water, potential you’ve tasted makes you physically hungry for more.