“Oh, I know you’re still there… cause I can feel you dying. I can hear you tapping me… for a little nutrition. Now who’s looking for a fix? It gets a little tight in here, do you? Well, you’re not wrong… cause the walls are moving in. No food here. Not today, sunshine. My eyes are open and the restaurant’s closed. Jog on. Slide off. Find someone else to fill your pipe. Someone, who won’t see you coming… or know, when you’re there.”
—Jake Green (Jason Statham)- Revolver (2005)
September 2010
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“I was breakin’ hearts and takin’ names and numbers just for fun. Stealin’ kisses wishin’ I was 21…”
—“Twenty One” by Corey Smith
“Though I only recited half, omitting the word ‘bitch,’ cursing I wouldn’t say it, me and dog couldn’t relate, til a bitch I dated. Forgive my favorite word for her and hers alike, but I learned it from a song I heard and sorta liked…”
—“Hurt Me Soul” by Lupe Fiasco
“Just because I style, they be thinkin’ I ain’t broken, and just because I smile, they be thinkin’ I be jokin’…”
—“It Was Beautiful” by DOM KENNEDY
Dedication 4? No thanks...
So, as we’re all aware, there was a large movement a couple of years ago where every rapper and his mother were using autotune on their tracks. As previously stated, T-Pain (who essentially originated it) and Kanye West are the only ones that used it correctly. Apparently, Lil Wayne never got the message that NO ONE LIKES AUTOTUNED TRACKS ANYMORE. But I guess those phone calls he’s allotted that are meant for contact with the outside world, are made to those who are completely oblivious to it (I’m looking at you Young Money Family). Now I’m of the school of thought that there is something to be said for persistence. Take a stroll through West Virginia- people STILL have mullets, or “West Virginia Waterfalls,” as they’re so affectionately called. Now I would imagine that it takes perseverance, and conviction in your beliefs to endure all of the hecklers and naysayers, and that I can respect, but it doesn’t make mullets acceptable, much in the same fashion that autotune (unless T-Pain or Kanye does it) is no longer acceptable. It can’t mask everything. Like the fact that you’re an ex-gangster from Hollygrove. I don’t understand- every time Wayne hops on a track with Baby, it’s bandanas in right pocket and bringing home the money via getting your ‘by any means on’. But on tracks by himself it’s skinny jeans and vans, and hideous autotuned screeching over guitar riffs. So you can imagine how disheartening for me it is to hear that Wayne is going to have another heavily autotuned LP called “I Am Not A Human Being” (and you are, because interplanetary space travel is still in the works considering that we still use a space shuttle that was modeled in the 80s), just like that skidmark on the underpants of rock album inaptly named “Rebirth.” Forget about it. And you can keep that stupid mixtape with mediocre tracks and DJ Drama tagging all over it. I hope jail made you step your bars up, Wayne, because the Carter IV is going to have to be ALMIGHTY work.
“The cruelest lies are often told without a word, the kindest truths are often spoke and never heard…”
—“The Last Polka” by Ben Folds Five
Allow me to reintroduce myself...
Your taste in music is atrocious. That’s why you’re here. I know, because not five minutes after showing up at your place, or getting in your car, I immediately reach for your tape deck, CD player, or whatever is producing that bile. How can you stand that caterwauling? For all those who enter here, abandon your inhibitions and poor decision making skills at the door. Allow me to break the mold of your basal uninspired sameness.
