Queer boys of color really need visibility and support, the lack of it is the reason why so many of us are still closeted. I'm hella proud of Frank for having the courage to be out and open and true to himself with no compromise, not even with mainstream success. This is great news. :)
Kanye killed it. It was really cool hearing "Sugar Daddy" with better audio than the fan videos from D's European gigs in the UK earlier this year. It was surreal watching D'Angelo get down in front of Beyonce, Kanye, Jay, and Nicki. It's like he had to remind them what raw black music sounded like. They were feeling it though.
I'm just glad D is back. That had me smiling the whole night.
Good list, but i would have maybe squeezed Andre in separately as well. We've been waiting for a solo Andre 3000 album just as long as another Outkast one.
This album was awful, with the exception of a few decent songs. I don't understand the indie validation of highly commercial cheesy pop music. You cease to become a legitimate voice for alternative music culture when you go out of your way to pander to lamestream sensibilities. It's not about being a snob, it's about maintaining integrity as an indie music publication. If the site covered all music indiscriminately, people wouldn't care much. But it's the illusion of presenting oneself as an alternative outlet and then featuring the very opposite of what you're suppose to represent... it is why some people are scrunching up their faces at the computer screen when they see artists like Nicki and Usher get praise here for such god-awful lazy pop music.
Sad to see their professional and personal relationship deteriorate. Is Wayne known for being such a douchebag? Badu, although pissed, tried to remain somewhat professional about it. His juvenile responses are telling.
I would have jizzed all over the place if i saw a postmortem 2Pac performing at Coachella. As someone who was a huge fan back in the '90s when he was alive... mind would have been blown.
LOL. Shit is comedy. DMX was at the top when i was a little younger, and he fell off, hard. But hip-hop definitely can get more interesting with his return.
That reply was meant to go somewhere else.... but in response to this Dave dude, can you please stfu with all your complaints about advertising? I don't know what cave you've been living in for the past 50 years, but music and advertising is as intertwined nowadays as people in the 18-25 age bracket and downloading music illegally. Your crusade is a noble one, on the surface, but you're nevertheless criticizing all artists who have ever made any profit off of their work (and i feel an artist should be able to do whatever the fuck he/she wants with his/her's work) . Everyone has to make a living, even those in the creative fields. How do you make a living? Do you feel like a sellout when you're cashing your paychecks? I guess anyone who accepts money is a sell-out.
I'm a participant of Occupy Wall St. Some of us within the movement love the concept of a Utopian-like society with no currency, no money at all whatsoever, but that's not the reality that we are all living in. And if we choose to be active participants of society and live in a capitalist country, there is a certain amount of compromise/assimilation that will occur.
But please understand what the concept of selling-out really means. I'm so tired of whiny hipsters bitching and moaning about this or that selling out when it doesn't fit their personal delusional little fantasy-world of what music should be- the only thing that's really selling out is their common sense and rationality. Get real bruh.
Ugh! I get so tired of some black female rappers/singers trying so desperately to look white- bitch take that fake plastic shit off and stick to your roots.
LOL @ Madonna being a bitter old bitch. This is coming from a 50+ year old woman dressing up like a skank and desperately trying to stay relevant. I wonder if she forgot about her SEX book or any and/all of the provocative things that she did in the '90s. Talk about pot calling the kettle black.
Not impressed with this either. And Alexis, as beautiful as she is, really needs to find a new style of singing- switch things up creatively artistically... I actually really liked the first album. But I'd hate to see them turn out to be one-trick-ponies-
Regardless of the cultish cliche hipster stereotype of artists first albums being better and them "not being allowed" to grow and evolve their sound, I'd say growth would serve Sleigh Bells well if they want to be serious about making music. If I had to compare Phantogram and SB side-by-side, I'd have to go with Phantogram- they have talent out the ass and write great songs. I see a lot of potential for them. But I don't know if i can say the same for SB.
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