Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
Listening to Brown Sugar as I type this
It's a Mint Condition & DeBarge kinda day for meMarvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield going up today
All factsFunny, every genre right now sampling 90s beats, creating 80s synth pop ballads, and desperately trying to recreate the 70s sound...but they all fail because the artists are mostly trash musically and lack conviction to be a believable artist....
LOUDER!I hold nikkas like Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz very much responsible for removing the soul and funk aesthetic from hip hop and promoting that money over absolutely everything mentality in the culture.
Then after destroying the integrity of our culture (making it passé to rap about community upliftment, knowledge of self, black pride…what hip hop was built on) these fakkits turn around and want to get all “sophisticated” by promoting European art to poor black people, making them feel even worse subconsciously about their place in the world.
Those musicians had soul.Funny, every genre right now sampling 90s beats, creating 80s synth pop ballads, and desperately trying to recreate the 70s sound...but they all fail because the artists are mostly trash musically and lack conviction to be a believable artist....