I like music, i really do. I like music so much that when i download leaked songs i always make sure i buy the album no matter how terrible it ends up being (i'm looking at you Asher Roth's first album). I like music so much that i am seriously considering investing in vinyl, a technology that hasn't been relevant for decades. thats how much i like music.
so, motivated by digital guilt and a genuine sense of respect, i have been inspired to use this site to educate the World (i.e. all two of the people who regularly read this site) of the artists i love and that i think you should love too.
i'm really dissapointed in Cadence Weapon at the moment, when he came out he had this crazy, never-heard-before, dystopian IDM/Hip Hop sound going on and, to my young ears, it sounded like the future, i assured everyone i knew that they would be listening to him by next year.
It's a sad fact of life but sometimes we all buy into the newest happening fad in a desperate effort to look cool, in the spirit of transparency i'll admit that i once bought a pair of skinny jeans only to throw them away a week later when a friend told me just how stupid i looked in them, but i'll admit it. Sure, i looked silly, lost alot of credibility and probably irrevocably damaged my sperm producing abilities but at least i knew the fashion didn't suit me and I walked away. I saw sense in time and realised i wasn't designed for skinny jeans.
Cadence Weapon on the other hand obviously spent the time between 'Breaking Kayfabe' and 'After Party Babies' listening to alot of Grime music, M.I.A and Justice and decided that he could do that too, and better! Cadence discarded his wonderfully subtle and verbose method of lyrical delivery and production replacing it with obnoxious shouty dance rap.
Cadence Weapon managed to make the switch from hyper-intelligent super underground king to a perpetually out of breath party boy doing a bad impression of Jammer and hamming it up badly enough to make even Uffie embarrassed. Dude needs to get back to some BPMs that he can handle ASAP and leave the party rap to people that still get invited to parties.
yeah you cross your fingers Boyo! you need all the luck you can get.
2. FLYING LOTUS
i feel silly cos i spent so long talking about Cadence Weapon and now i have little to say about the others, they're doing so well. i don't hate Cadence, i just feel as though the right encouragement might give him the proper incentive to fufill his true potential. . .
TRY HARDER GOD DAMMIT!
My biggest regret of the last six months was missing Flying Lotus when he came to my city. Flying Lotus is a bona fide genius. he delivered a damn near flawless album in 'Los Angeles'; a shimmering, cohesive and utterly brazen trip through some crazy dubby, echoey world that only Flying Lotus knows the way to and back from.
i tell everyone i meet about Flying Lotus, one day i'll meet someone who knows what I'm talking about without mistaking me for a zealous hindu looking for souls to convert, and they will engage me in wonderful conversation and we will fall in love (if said person happens to be a woman.)
all of which leads me wonderfully onto the subject of . . .
1. NIKKI MINAJ
Nikki Minaj is great, and not just because she looks like she stepped straight out of my fevered sexual psyche, Nikki Minaj is great because when she raps she still manages to sound feminine, and to me thats really important. really, really important. because if your going to be a better rapper than me i'd appreciate it if you sounded like a girl too. Yours,
BEAR
in hindsight, perhaps i was a little harsh on poor old Cadence Weapon. i feel kind of bad especially after all the love i showed the other two. NO, you've got to be cruel to be kind. EARN MY LOVE CADENCE, EAAAAAARN IT!!!
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