Common - Electric Circus
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TNDAP:
we always get into it?
i hadn't noticed. i didnt realise we were getting into it right now.
electric circus is a music album by a hip hop guy. i love electric circus. best soulquarian effort i've heard to date, but i make a sculpture but am a painter by trade, my sculpture isn't a painting just because that's what i do for my day job.
i said nothing about me being black making my opinions more valid, i find it hilarious that people always try to fall back on that weak argument when trying to discredit what i say, even if what i say makes perfect sense.
of course my opinions are my own. i said them. i don't need a disclaimer to let you know "hey, what i'm about to say here is just my personal opinion: blah blah blah". if anyone needs to hear someone else, about to state an opinion they feel adamant about so they don't get their little feelings hurt need to grow a spine. that's redundant. and i'm redundant enough in the things that i say as it is, why warn people that what i'm about to say is my opinion. like my opinion is law anyway. haha
"people that actually live the culture vs a fucking gimmick"
how is common's new steez any less of a gimmick than the white suburban angst of a fred durst lead crew?
i mean, erykah badu used to rock fake locks before she saw the contradiction and went baldheaded, is that not a gimmick as well? and she's engaged to the artist formerly known as sense. just because somebody is doing something you like or agree with doesn't make it any less of a gimmick. the roots' whole 'we're a band that plays rap music' has been their gimmick from the jump off.
i mean, i like nas's whole black power/upliftment steez right now, but it's pretty gimmicky.
of course it's cool that i don't like it. it's preference. it's cool that you like it. it's preference.
just because i state my opinion in a forward manner doesn't mean i actually believe my word should be the end all to everything i decide to speak on. don't let ones self esteem issues or inability to stand behind their own words and convictions paint me to be this arrogant know it all. i'll be the first to tell you what i don't know. just ask :D
and if someone started listening to rap 5 minutes ago and has anything of merit to say concerning the music and the directions it should take, i'd be amazed. the fact that anyone has avoided listening to a music and subculture that's been around over 20 years says enough about their closed off and possibly racist frame and at the least prejudicial frame of mind for me to give a shit anyway. and since folks need disclaimers, this is just me personally.
cody chestnutt's album is on some poorly masterd and mixed down so it sounds out of the basement sorta junk.
and this whole black rock revival thing just strikes me as a little too sanctimonious. i mean, that's cool to be shoutin out at elvis and kenny g mos def, but the few rock joints you've done from BOBS to black jack johnson aren't exactly hittin either. and i like early kenny g. *shrug*
i've heard of kindred. i'm pissed off hidden beach is dropping another atrocious Smooth Jazz Hip Hop Covers album before kindred. who buys that smooth jazz shit?
preciate the love on the DFF thing.
kpl: that ASSumption about sweden was equally as stupid as the assumption that i only listened to these shitty, mediocre albums more than once. and whatever dumb shit that little swede said. that was the point.
i'm not thaaaaaat dumb to ignore the fact that hip hop is practice in a so called traditional sense better outside of the U.S. than in it. but being that mostly black and latino americans that share a common disadvantaged history in the U.S. are the ones that truly defined and still do define the culture, music, manners of speech, fads that the rest of the world will pick up 5-10 years later, and whatever else it's very possible that i don't really give a shit about Hip Hop imitators. even if they are good. that's like me giving props to these japanese reggae groups shoutin out selassie I and jah and talkin in patois and aint never left nippon.
that said, loop troop is pretty damn fresh. nicolay from the netherlands is fresher. and krewcial from belgium is dope.
quit mistaking me for a fanboy mr. lee, it's probably the easiest conclusion to jump to, but also the silliest.
holla back, but listen first.