He's right. Anybody that knows a little something about music or has a good ear knows that alicia keys isnt the musical prodigy as they tried to market her to be when she came out. I been saying this shyt from the jump back in 2001. It's all just marketing, manipulation and just the hype machine tricking the masses that cant think for themselves, not questioning shyt. Rick james knows his shyt because hes a real musician. He wrote his shyt. He composed his own music. He produced his shyt and other peoples music. Alicia keys dont even do that. Yall never heard of alicia keys producing or writing other peoples records because she cant.
What turned me off about her was basically that falling in love record she did. The piano on it is basically someone elses work, a sample and looped. I know I heard that shyt somewhere else before I even heard her record. Then added a beat machine to that shyt and there it is. Its manufactured bullshyt that was being pushed like it was Motown or Stevie wonder. She did not compose her shyt and even worse, she CANNOT sing. She is literally straining her voice. Literally. You can hear it. I knew from the jump that she was a gimmick ass fraud and never fukked with her music ever. I wont even get into her performances. I remember seeing her on video music box when her performance was so bad that she had to resort to playing marj j's real love to keep the crowd alive.
Prince said the same shyt about beyonce too because she is basically the same shyt. He was working with her and she didnt even know what an octave was. See Prince, Rick James, Stevie and the legends know their shyt as its shown in the music so if you put them next to an alicia keys and a beyonce. Its an insult to them. They know these folks aren't musicians. They are just put their industry to make money because thats what the music business has became. Convincing people that someone has musical talent instead of actual merits.
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@NYC Rebel is the only person i know that basically broke that shyt down perfectly. He did it way back on hamster.
