Wednesday, July 1, 2009

"L.A.S.E.R.S."


Although i do not know what it stands for--i like it, the message that is. Lupe is consistently one of my favorites and he says quite a few things that i would say if i were afforded the platform that he has, therefore i syphon his words a lot to support and echo my own.

There is nothing like good, productive dialogue; proceed with caution. Often times we support and endorse the wrong messages, usually destructive, selfish, or unfruitful. To be honest a huge portion of it comes from our music and i believe that music is the undercurrent of our lives, it pushes our minds in different directions, although it doesn't have control it has influence. For my demographic, ages 18-33, unfortunately there are too many instances where we use damaging ideas to paint the outline of our reality. This is not an endeavor calling for a rush of MLK remembrance songs, but rarely do we achieve a balance, or even worse rarely are we able to discern foolishness from quality. I don't want to get too long-winded so i will truncate my message, i think Lupe brings a lot of quality, especially in terms of thought processes.

I think as much as support some other emcees with inferior talent and very little to say (which is all good), we should support even more talented emcees with a lot more to say (which is even better).

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