Damn, Erykah droppin' science!

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Erykah Badu speaks on how to "make it" in the music business

This is some real ass shit right here though; even through all the sarcasm that she is speaking through this montage you can tell that she is serious about how female R&B singers have become more like whores than singers. In the recent ten years, R&B, hip-hop, rock, pop, etc have all had this "commerce over art" makeover where you now get models that cannot sing singing and dancing on your television screens instead of truly talented artists. It has become truly disheartening nowadays when you finally do find an album that has songs greater on it than the singles you've been brainwashed into loving from the radio and TV, you feel like you've had a breathe of fresh air from a truly talented LP.

I'm sick of going to buy an 18 track long album for $15 dollars and finding out that only 3 of the tracks (usually the singles) are the only good songs on the album. The music industry is not about talent anymore; it's about commerce. It's about having models that cannot hold a note singing off key with the Roger & Zapp robotic voice over 80's enthused house beats and making up a stupid dance to get kids to download your ring tone rather than buy your album. Everything has it's time, and the music industry is due for a huge makeover when these house niggas on TV are tap dancing in iced-out nooses and shackles to ignorant songs. Everything is due its time; real music will takeover the fake hella soon.

Reality television has become the new phenomenon of programming over the past 15 years. FOX's "COPS" was the very first reality TV show to be broad casted in the US in 1989. Almost 20 years later, we (as television viewers) are more obsessed with whose going to win FOX's"American Idol" or whose going to get voted out of the house of CBS' "Big Brother" than we are with our own lives. We schedule our lives around the broad casting schedule of these reality shows. And if you can't be there for the live broad casting of your favorite show...alas, there is the great invention of TiVo! There are people in this world that "can't live" with missing one episode of ABC's "Extreme Makeover" or the Bravo network's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." We feel disconnected when we are having water cooler talk at our jobs about the latest winner of CBS' "The Apprentice," and don't know
what Donald Trump said to Mike Travis (fictitious name) after he "fired" him.

We are consumed with this "reality" of normal people (such as ourselves) being broad casted on TV for the whole world to see. Do you honestly think that shows such VH1's "I Love New York" or "The Flava of Love" could possibly not be supposititious at all? Are you serious? Is it even viable that people could parade around
a numerous amount of producers, and television cameras
ignorantly making complete asses of themselves for their 15 minutes of fame? Sadly, YES!

We are more engrossed with what's happening on falsified productions of reality on the small screen than we are with our own realities in our own lives. We also live as characters on reality TV ourselves; the audience isn't millions of people in their homes laughing at our mishaps and problems though. The audience is the organizations formed by the government used to scan, scrutinize, and perlustrate our lives. Don't believe it, huh? Smile for the camera next time you are walking with your iPod blaring totally disconnected to your surroundings down Embarcadero in San Francisco, Melrose in Los Angeles, or 55th St. in New York.

No longer do we need to be consumed with the pseudo lives of actors on these "reality" TV shows; we need to be more worried about what we do in our everyday lives that's being broad casted to governmental firms to keep you disconnected to true reality.