On Mystikal Featuring Lil Wayne And Fiend, "Paper Cuts" And The Amorality Of Art
plenty of people who work in hip hop have said pretty much what i've just said: that the scene has been played out for a while, that this is the nadir of the genre, music for white suburban kids. in fact, many have been saying that for 20 years. don't you know there are talented black musicians out there who hate it when white people praise crap like Shake Ya Ass?
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On Mystikal Featuring Lil Wayne And Fiend, "Paper Cuts" And The Amorality Of Art
saying rap hasn't changed much in 20 years is not the same as saying new hip hop sucks (sometimes the same old beats sound good), it's not the same as saying "i like everything but rap," or "i only own natives tongues records." OK? I was offering an aesthetic critique (which you didn't refute) and you called me a borderline racist. some people criticize hip hop because they LOVE black culture.
and, you know, it's "the Awl," not "the Pedestal" for lowbrow junk.
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On Mystikal Featuring Lil Wayne And Fiend, "Paper Cuts" And The Amorality Of Art
@iantenna i never said new hip hop sucks or any of that other stuff you invented. the hip hop dave bry writes about INVARIABLY sucks--it's usually top 40 garbage.
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On Mystikal Featuring Lil Wayne And Fiend, "Paper Cuts" And The Amorality Of Art
The guy who remembers where he was the first time he heard Shake Ya Ass is offended by the f-word?
And you know your cheeky explications of troglodytic rap lyrics have a demeaning component. You're like some nineteenth-century anthropologist praising the savages for their ingenuity. Mystikal did not write a song about the amorality of art--that's your tongue-in-cheek, deliberate misinterpretaion of his work.
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On Mystikal Featuring Lil Wayne And Fiend, "Paper Cuts" And The Amorality Of Art
Are you fucking serious? You think there's "verse" and "music" going on here? And for christ's sake, there hasn't been a new beat in hip hop since 1993.
This shit is BORING. If you met a guy who told you his interests in life were sex and money, you'd roll your eyes and say, "Wow, really? Sex AND cash? How original." Hip hop has been that guy for twenty years.
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On The Youngs Confront Their Oversharing: Blogs B4 Boyfriendz
So you read this piece by an insane, narcissistic young woman (who's actually totally boring), and you thought this was an opportunity to slander men?
With an attitude like that, you're never going to find a nice guy to marry.
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On White House: Let's Hurry To Get Back To Throwing People Out of Their Homes
and cue the bewildered obama supporters who thought he was a liberal
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On The Continuum of Feminism, Explained, via Long Analogy Involving Planes
Yeah, and it's not like chicks didn't wear buckets of jizz in Germaine Greer's day.
On a related note, the girls where I live are wearing leggings (tights, really) with nothing over them. They're rocking the coin purse. Is this OK? Am I allowed to notice this?
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On No One Shot At Conde Nast
I see. You weren't correcting the problem you were sort of quoting it.
If you're in the mood to defend readers from further lie/lay problems, please see the WSJ article linked to in "Willi Dorner's Wall Street Dance Project."
This is fun.
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On Birdman, "Fire Flame"
More corporate culture from Dave Bry. Cash Money Records might be "owned" by Williams, but it is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group (UMG). UMG makes a tidy profit (or aspires to once again) by peddling gangster rap to middle class white guys who want to feel less bourgeois.
Hope you enjoy cranking this one up in your Honda Civic, Mr. Bry.
What a dumb track.