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Post by machaoc9222 on Nov 4, 2016 16:16:20 GMT -5
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Post by matty on Nov 4, 2016 16:38:05 GMT -5
i like it
wish Em had more of a verse though but his intro was cute!
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Post by nelly on Nov 4, 2016 18:47:11 GMT -5
I'd be pissed if I was Crooked. Everybody else gets a full verse or chorus and all he gets is a 10 second intro?
Anyway, for a second there it felt like it was a new Em song and it sounded different so it got me even more excited for the album!
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Post by britanny on Nov 5, 2016 8:59:35 GMT -5
I'd be pissed if I was Crooked. Everybody else gets a full verse or chorus and all he gets is a 10 second intro? Anyway, for a second there it felt like it was a new Em song and it sounded different so it got me even more excited for the album! No, it's his song so I'm sure he was fine with it, if he wasn't then he wouldn't of put him on there, it was probably his idea to only have him as a intro. |
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Post by Aria on Nov 5, 2016 9:44:32 GMT -5
I'm not going to speak much on the intro, but I will critique this as a long-time hip hop fan; *this* is the type of stuff I have been talking about on my blogs and commentaries about what is missing in hip hop these days. Truth and the real issues. The problem the world is in today, in a hip hop view anyway, is that artists were so damn focused on thinking that since rap became a more "accepted" main stream genre, that things were only going to go "up" from here, that they stopped talking about the real shit that was going on, and has now led us to a point where the country is about to elect a former active KKK clan member for the senate, and a son of a KKK member for president, and a new non-white group has now been added into the "groups that should be eradicated from the Earth."
Artists over the last year have been talking about how shocked and horrified that things have gone backwards, and I'm sitting here going "because you all kept talking about clubbing and partying and you let them walk ALL over you and kept you blind or forced to stay in a lane." Record labels that hold some of the highest selling artists, have WHITE CEO's that are telling the artists what sells, in order to make money. The artists, are limited in their expression, and so the issues aren't getting talked about. Everyone was sooooo shocked when Trayvon's murder happened (hello, there's been a rivalry between the two groups for DECADES now, people, it's not a new thing). And then Mike Brown Tamir Rice and Eric Garner.
People were so *shocked* and asking why it was happening in this era, and why a movement like BLM has to exist, and I'm sitting here wanting to scream; "because it never STOPPED happening." People's focus shifted and the culture was all about parties and getting high, or getting laid. The struggle was ignored, the community violence became "just a black-on-black" thing. Private-run prisons boomed structurally and financially and nobody wondered why, or most were drowning in so many platitudes that they didn't care.
I hate to say it, it's a controversial opinion, I know, but mainstream record companies - the suits behind them, are just a brand new version of a slave master. Their artists, are their slaves. They douse their signees with royalty checks and contracts and business deals, but ONLY if they're making the music that sells and makes them money - and it's disguised by calling it "just business".
Please. The minute rap and hip hop culture started making waves in the US, record companies were fucking FOAMING at their mouths and saw the artists as nothing but walking dollar signs, and once they promised these artists a "way out" of their neighborhoods, they could make them fucking dance the way they wanted them to. The same thing happened to rock, except that the pre-era of civil rights let them get away with blacklisting every black artist on the airwaves until they appropriated and white-washed it all to hell, to the point people are now pissed off that Beyonce wants to perform at the CMA's. Keep in mind that on it's opening year, the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame took in 10 inductees. almost half of them were white artists. Exactly half of them, if you count The Everly Brothers individually. Oh, and one of them? Elvis. Whose career was cemented in doing songs that were written and originally performed by black artists.
Of course, record companies wouldn't get away with buying the songs from a black artist's manager and refusing to give any credit, royalties, or acknowledgement to the original creator/performer, but they control the content in other ways, such as limited creative license and censorship. keep in mind that NWA was not only one of the first groups that forced labels to put "warning" labels on their record, but the grou was even shoved into its own category of "gangsta rap". Like it was fueling the idea that rap music is made by and for wannabe or future criminals.
Now, you have this track here, which is talking some REAL stuff about how there is no middle ground anymore. You're either rich, or you're poor, and it's the government that's done that. Yeah, dude - but it's ALSO your label that's keeping you from turning this into a radio single. Commercial radio doesn't want to play the truth to the masses, they're like mainstream media. They put on what gets them PAID and what doesn't get them sued by their sponsors. You think Donald or Hilary Trump is going to want a track like this talking about how they're fucking people over and probably laughing about it? Of course not. The corporations pay their government and their campaigns, the corporations own the private prisons and they get more revenue each percentage of prisoner they have.
Shady Records is an affiliate of Aftermath, which is an affiliate of Interscope, who is governed by Universal. And it's Universal that tells Jimmy what to do, who then tells Paul what to do (because he knows more about the business side of things) who then tells Em what to do. It's a ladder of corruption that probably just digs down, rather than up (and I'm Jewish, I'm not supposed to believe in a physical hell, but I wonder sometimes...)
But every single time I have said that rap and hip hop are getting soft. That they're on life support and almost dead. That it's not what it used to be, THIS is what I am talking about that rap and hip hop needs more of. Forget your stupid party tracks and your bragging about how much you get laid and how much of an expensive alcohol you can drink/waste your money on, hip hop started with a message, with a point and with a purpose. If you think that walking away once you get comfortable means that shit like the last three years that has spawned needed movements such as Black Lives Matter won't happen? You're wrong.
Your comfort is premature. The fight isn't over yet. Stop making songs about how your life is so great, and then getting pissed off when a candidate like Donald manages to actually have a CHANCE at becoming president, and there's a KKK member running for office at the same damn time. Stop buckling under the pressure of CEO's that are working alongside the government that are putting your brothers and sisters in jail just to gain a profit, and simultaneously ruining their lives and future generations. Stop giving in to a cheque, and stop thinking that just because Obama had two terms that all is good now - it's not.
LEARN from the past three years, and before. LEARN from this election, and for G-d's sake, learn from Black Lives Matter.
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Post by cally on Nov 10, 2016 11:18:14 GMT -5
Am I the only one who can´t hear this video?   says it´s blocked
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Post by me on Nov 10, 2016 11:53:43 GMT -5
Am I the only one who can´t hear this video? says it´s blocked Does this work? |
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Post by me on Nov 10, 2016 11:55:16 GMT -5
I really like the beat! My kind of song! I really wish Em would be featured a bit more, and I really hope Em does more "slow" songs like this one, or psychopath killer, or the hills remix or seduction  |
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Post by cally on Nov 10, 2016 17:02:13 GMT -5
Am I the only one who can´t hear this video? says it´s blocked Does this work? YES!! thank you!! you are my Youtube problems solver! :6k |
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