On February 17, 2004 02:58 pm, gel-sol@gel-sol.com wrote:
I guess my point is that most of this music (mainstream rap, hip-hop, whatever) lacks any real substance...its all superficial.....
I can't handle most mainstream music for it's superficiality, and the current state of hip-hop is just sooooo sad - to think that a form of music with such deep political roots has become mainly a commercial entity whose "artists" sell ego and violence.... well, go read some Chuck D. :o) But Outkast seems pretty cool. Funny this thread started as I was listening to the album for the first time. I'm less fond of the Andre 3000 disk, but I do like it's unusual and funky flavour. Favourite (and substance filled) bits are on the Big Boi disk: "When will we all, awake up out this dream Come here and smell the Folgers, the soldiers are human beings Man actin as if he was the supreme bein Clockin the souls of men out like he was G-O-D and W-A-Rrah, there'll be no tomorrow but sorrow and horror will follow the hollow hearts battle for dollars Politicians, modern day magicians Physicians of death, more health care for poor health Who makin us ill, they makin us kill That's makin me spill my guts (chill Big, lay in the cut) For what? I refuse to sit in the backseat and get handled Like I do nuttin all day but sit around watch the Cartoon Channel I rap about, the Presidential election and the scandal that followed, and we all watched the nation, as it swallowed and chalked it up, basically America you got FUCKED The media shucked and jived now we stuck - damn!" http://www.lyrics007.com/OutKast Lyrics/War%20Lyrics.html Well, damn! They ain't no Dixie Chicks, but I don't think you can call 'em soulless. Mick