So music has something to do with IQ?
I listen to music for enjoyment nikka. Ill read a book for all that shyt.
I learned a lot from Lupe, and enjoyed the album, but musically, it sucks. i cant get jiggy to that shyt.
you're not supposed to get jiggy to everything.
this is something yall dont understand.
There was a time. LONG LONG AGO> lol.(i'm telling this like a harry potter story)
Where you could either catch a video or on the radio and hear different TYPES of hiphop.
Some straight club bangers, some hits with a little message, some songs that were made for the herb nation, some songs that were made to chill with ya girl.
I'm over hear listening to this songza plalist with all dungeon family produce stuff. and goodie mob is on. 100% black improvement(we need to get it together) music. Cee-lo going in. spitting knowlege. the music was mood music ,not danceable music. some would just leave it on in the background because it was good music for that purpose to let that knowledge sink in slow. again this was even true for the herb nation folk that use to listen to them.
now then you have outkast from the same crew. similar approach but their songs are more upbeat, some songs are danceable, others are HIT records. but all of them were kicking knowlege, from street knowledge, to american history, world history, black history.
then you had use to have the Whoop There it is type of songs. straight hits, Club hits, radio hits. we all liked those songs too. then you turn that Nas on and get a new york state of mind. good music when you on that train(bus) to school or work in the morning in the winter time. then you hear some west coast mcee giving you a west coast banger spitting that gutta street life.
we had all of it all at once. NOW you only have one type of hiphop being played on the radio/videos. and thats all thats being pushed even on the internet in the fake underground scene. where these labels RE-launch a lot of their shelved artists careers.
this is why your ears are so messed up into thinking you need lupe's album to be a bunch of Club bangers or trunk bangers to make you love it. you dont need that to love the album anyway. there's no need to say "its a great album but.." take the but off. its a great album for what it is. listen to it. move on to something else when you feel like listening to something else. then when you get sick of that cotton candy club rap that aint about nothing. turn that lupe back on again . the more you rock with lupe. the more lupes will be created. the more lupe's created the more diverse even lupe's type of music will become. you will find someone that can do what lupe does. but do it to danceable tracks(OUTKAST) vs Goodie mob. but if you SHUN lupe and keep saying how it has no replay value or you cant listen to it because it doesnt bang or there are no HITS on the album. then you are setting up a situation where less lupe's will want to rap since they know they wont be successful or taken seriously by the fans. so why even try. this means you get more cotton candy party, club rap. as if all you do all day is club and party. music is a soundtrack to life. its not supposed to be stuck in one room(the club).
