"It’s when those who hate you are allowed
To sell you that you’re a glorious shit the entire world revolves around"
is totally a ripoff of
"And now every insufferable convo
Features her patiently explaining the cosmos
Of which she's in the middle"
though.
I'm scrolling through the top comments and I get to number one and I'm all...
http://i.imgur.com/jc3oBq7.png
Thank you all for ignoring my blatant typo and carrying me to the top. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a Zero shirt and got a ton of shit from the popular kids in middle school.
WELL LOOK AT ME NOW POPULAR KIDS!
THANK YOU COLIN. This is just straight D'angelo/Radiohead live band mashups and it has been blowing my mind off all day. The "Send It On" motif over the last two tracks is unreal.
I'm just kidding like Jason (unless you're gonna do it).
On a different note. There is no context in which what Ice Cube says up there is OK. Maybe you're playing us all with dad movie mediocrity and you're trying to show your true colors, but there are better ways to go than throwback misogyny. Get a clue.
A platform is a platform, and I'm glad she's using it.
Consider the hundreds of celebrities that could say SOMETHING on the subject, and choose to say nothing...
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Dr+Dre+Grand+Opening+RivaBella+Ristorante+jBxlGFhCR9Kl.jpg
Dre: "Oh it'll be easy for you to get the tip, waiter.
What's going to be hard is keeping it, MOTHERFUCKER."
One other thing, with what Tom said about "i".
"That song is on the album, but it’s buried near the end, in a live version for some reason."
I think the reason is that he's performing it in front of a hometown crowd, trying to reach them, trying to get them to respond, and they're just not doing it. It's one of the bleakest moments on the record. I could just be hearing it that way, but that's how it struck me at first.
Last night after my first full front-to-back headphones listen, I logged onto the album post here planning to say something. After staring blankly at the blinking cursor for about 3 minutes I shut my computer.
I don't hear a we're-all-in-this-together call to power here. I hear a how-have-things-gotten-to-this-point-of-fucked-upness-? desperation. I hear Kendrick wanting desperately to shift a paradigm, to flip the tape over and have the world be a kinder place. But that's a fantasy. I hear Kendrick realizing he's the biggest and most important rapper in the world, but simultaneously realizing that doesn't put him in a position to change anything on his own. It's tragic.
I can't really listen to "Unknown Pleasures", because to me it has always been the sound of complete desperation, convalescence and surrender to something that's killing you.
So my takeaway is this:
I think this is probably a masterpiece. But it certainly makes me think about a lot of things, things that make me feel uncomfortable to have to think about, but I think that is productive in-and-of-itself.
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