My name's Jake Bourey, and I've dedicated a significant portion of my life to music and deciphering the science behind its beauty. As you can guess from my blog's title, I'm especially passionate about hip-hop. I post and review the best songs hip-hop has to offer, old and new. Most are in the “underground” genre, considering that’s where the vast majority of hip-hop's true art resides these days.
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“When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.”
NPR - Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop & Honoring The Old School
“Sex, drugs and party, party, party. That’s where it’s at in the mainstream. But you’d be fooled if you only got your hip-hop from the mainstream. One of the biggest hip-hop artists in the country right now is Macklemore, who doesn’t do anything like that….But the things that move people are not just found in the mainstream culture. So when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop is preoccupied with life. You could find a hip-hop song dealing with any subject matter, but the stuff that’s being promoted and marketed and the corporations are spending major money on is the decadent stuff, which is mostly about drug use and sex. That’s why people get a skewed perspective of hip-hop. Hip-hop fans themselves aren’t even listening to that stuff.”
Played 198 times.What’s your favorite song(s) by Talib Kweli?
“I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they all talked real slick.”
“Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, and still keep your attitude on self-destruct.”
- MF Doom
23rd May 2013
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