VerbalIntercourse
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Like having to "match" or always having to buy jordans? not just clothing but is there not a pressure to speak a certain way and like certain music as well?
Something i've noticed from reading comments here and there about Odd future and Lil B has been bothering me for a while. black people, it seems, don't like those two acts because they do things differently. The biggest compliant about OFWKTA ,i hear and read, is that they are weird. Really? that's it? they are weird, so they suck? Lil B has a satire style that he directly stole from 80's punk (eg. Black flag's "Six Pack" or "stick it in"), and I really can't believe that it seems to just fly over people's heads. The guy sites 80's punk as an influence to his music!
Even in a culture like that of the Japanese, which appears, prima facie, to be highly conformist, doesn't punish the artists and musicians for being "different' the way I think black people do. Sure, Black musicians can dress flamboyantly or have a stage act that is "weird", but they can't play "weird" music. Prince, MJ, Cameo, the Gap band and other "weird" artists played a pretty straight-ahead funk/R an B style of music, despite their weirdness in character and appearance. Odd future looks weird, acts weird, but also doesn't make traditional music.
Odd future reminds me a lot of these guys.
These guys were playing hardcore music in 1979 way before everyone else. They took a risk with something new and weird, and they created something that has evolved and changed but is still around to this day. I heard Bad Brains's self-titled album when I was 18, and it completely changed my life. That was 20 years after it was released. Their music and their fanbase will always be relevant, and that was because they were different. They bucked the trends and stayed true. They created something special. I have dozens of bad brains shirts and a bad brains tattoo. I have been given props by many white and hispanic people on the streets, but no black person has ever seem to notice that before. I think that is a shame. I suspect the majority of Odd future's fans are white too.
How many black people on this board thought Iron Galaxy was the best rap album of the last 12 years? Be honest. I think it is. What about Aesop Rock, the def jux crew? or sole? what do you think of those guys?
Something i've noticed from reading comments here and there about Odd future and Lil B has been bothering me for a while. black people, it seems, don't like those two acts because they do things differently. The biggest compliant about OFWKTA ,i hear and read, is that they are weird. Really? that's it? they are weird, so they suck? Lil B has a satire style that he directly stole from 80's punk (eg. Black flag's "Six Pack" or "stick it in"), and I really can't believe that it seems to just fly over people's heads. The guy sites 80's punk as an influence to his music!
Even in a culture like that of the Japanese, which appears, prima facie, to be highly conformist, doesn't punish the artists and musicians for being "different' the way I think black people do. Sure, Black musicians can dress flamboyantly or have a stage act that is "weird", but they can't play "weird" music. Prince, MJ, Cameo, the Gap band and other "weird" artists played a pretty straight-ahead funk/R an B style of music, despite their weirdness in character and appearance. Odd future looks weird, acts weird, but also doesn't make traditional music.
Odd future reminds me a lot of these guys.
These guys were playing hardcore music in 1979 way before everyone else. They took a risk with something new and weird, and they created something that has evolved and changed but is still around to this day. I heard Bad Brains's self-titled album when I was 18, and it completely changed my life. That was 20 years after it was released. Their music and their fanbase will always be relevant, and that was because they were different. They bucked the trends and stayed true. They created something special. I have dozens of bad brains shirts and a bad brains tattoo. I have been given props by many white and hispanic people on the streets, but no black person has ever seem to notice that before. I think that is a shame. I suspect the majority of Odd future's fans are white too.
How many black people on this board thought Iron Galaxy was the best rap album of the last 12 years? Be honest. I think it is. What about Aesop Rock, the def jux crew? or sole? what do you think of those guys?
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