5 Random, Disconnected Thoughts For Today
5. Methinks I have no game, dude.
4. Tim, are we eating pizza tomorrow?!
3. Jamie, give me a call Friday, man.
2. No, I will not mix my milk and cookies; that's just wrong.
1. I would pay money to hear Bob Costas announce a funeral.
P.S. Side Rant: Does anyone realize that hip-hop and R&B are not the same thing? And that today's commercial hip-hop sucks? I mean, truly epically shameful? Are the A&R dudes at record labels even paying attention? Is anyone buying the crap on the Top 40 radio now? The '90s were awesome for R&B and Soul. Even the repetitive throw-away songs were good. And the phase maybe lasted into '02. There were rapper cameos back then, but we understood that it was a dance track or something. Not to mention that people actually rhymed words back then. Now, everything is Ghetto. If you sing a song now, you are either: 1) White, 2) Gay, or 3) Country. Even Robin Thicke can't do a whole album without some hip-hop fake jumping in. People actually ask me, they dare laugh when I say I'm a little stuck on Lionel Richie and Babyface. Geez, hip-hop is so bad I want Puff Daddy back. Yes, Puff Daddy. Not P-Diddy or whatever Sean Combs is calling himself these days. Someone has even kidnapped Usher and turned him into a ghetto-bot. He wants us to like this, when he knows $%#! well that his best song in 5 years is this. They didn't even release it as a single, and it hit the top 20. Are you listening? Matter of fact, no, this is the truth: you have to earn the right to have a ghetto-edge. Alicia Keys has earned it with songs like this. Look me in the face and tell me you won't listen to that in 30 years. Really what this is about is the horrid mixing of genres to the detriment of both. Rap is beautiful and incisive by itself; Soul, the same. But this Frankenstein monster "hip-hop" will be the death of me.
5. Methinks I have no game, dude.
4. Tim, are we eating pizza tomorrow?!
3. Jamie, give me a call Friday, man.
2. No, I will not mix my milk and cookies; that's just wrong.
1. I would pay money to hear Bob Costas announce a funeral.
P.S. Side Rant: Does anyone realize that hip-hop and R&B are not the same thing? And that today's commercial hip-hop sucks? I mean, truly epically shameful? Are the A&R dudes at record labels even paying attention? Is anyone buying the crap on the Top 40 radio now? The '90s were awesome for R&B and Soul. Even the repetitive throw-away songs were good. And the phase maybe lasted into '02. There were rapper cameos back then, but we understood that it was a dance track or something. Not to mention that people actually rhymed words back then. Now, everything is Ghetto. If you sing a song now, you are either: 1) White, 2) Gay, or 3) Country. Even Robin Thicke can't do a whole album without some hip-hop fake jumping in. People actually ask me, they dare laugh when I say I'm a little stuck on Lionel Richie and Babyface. Geez, hip-hop is so bad I want Puff Daddy back. Yes, Puff Daddy. Not P-Diddy or whatever Sean Combs is calling himself these days. Someone has even kidnapped Usher and turned him into a ghetto-bot. He wants us to like this, when he knows $%#! well that his best song in 5 years is this. They didn't even release it as a single, and it hit the top 20. Are you listening? Matter of fact, no, this is the truth: you have to earn the right to have a ghetto-edge. Alicia Keys has earned it with songs like this. Look me in the face and tell me you won't listen to that in 30 years. Really what this is about is the horrid mixing of genres to the detriment of both. Rap is beautiful and incisive by itself; Soul, the same. But this Frankenstein monster "hip-hop" will be the death of me.
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