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.

Mental Freestyle Part Un (1)

I wrote this poem on the 9th of February of this year, 2007. I was listening to a playlist of eclectic songs and I put fragmented pieces of the lyrics in this poem in the beginning of it. You can tell that by the middle of the poem that my viewpoint totally changed like it normally does when I write. Any comments, questions, or ridicule would be gratefully appreciated via AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, or e-mail. Thank you! Please do subscribe to this page as well and tell your friends or anyone that you may think might be interested in my writings. Even if you think they might not be interested, it might be a good thing for them to read on my page. Thanks!

2.9.07

It's too late

For the better

Frail dreams of stormy weather

Never stable

But think provocatively

Never waiting of your response

At a distant glance

I asked four times for a chance

Misleadings I have feel behind

Blowing the planets out of alignment

Grabbing the Moon and burying it

Within my closet

But only to see that I have

Darkened the sky for all to bleed

The planes mistaken for stars

Blowin' up in the sky

But then to remark the catastrophe

But yes a travesty

Further events seen as a tragedy

All the dreams we've left behind

To bury them in our gardens

Falling fast asleep without solace or glee

Thank you for dishardment of heart

Two more years

Another view isn't seen

Golden reefs beyond the sea

Atlantis waiting to blow up the Earth

Babylon spite the U.S.

Disregarding the civilians

Women infertile

Men amongst reptiles

Alienating the truth

The core of the Earth is hollow

Believe me, believe so

You worship paganistic symbols

MK Ultra repetitive images in dreams

Programming us for the next day

Lead me, Father for I want

To help my people

Destroy the genocide displayed

Upon us

Unveiling the masons and snakes

Amongst us

So we can anarchize this world

To idealism

These material pagan idols

Jesus, You I won't be forgettin'

But if only the servants of the Illuminati

Would listen.

Posers!

I am getting sick of seeing how these kids are walking around with their skate park chains, punk rock belts, Van's, and rock tee's just because of what Jim Jones and Lupe Fiasco are wearing in their videos. This is bullshit! They used to clown and degrade black kids that actually we were skaters and punk rock fans for dressing this way, now it's a "cool" thing to do this shit. Go ask them if they know how to hit an alloy or if they can name a song by the band they're wearing on their shirt, and they'll look at you like you're stupid.


It's funny how the mainstream can change a whole people's perception on something that used to be a subculture.

Fuckin posers!