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170685, RE: I completely forgot about the Macklemore thing.
Posted by Mr. ManC, Sat Mar-21-15 09:03 PM
Also, to go back to this eras of Black music (60s/70s/80s) and mixing that with the idea of Labels/Lucy and how the big 5 jumped in and bought up all the distribution channels to syndicate and monopolize the pipeline to "popular" music....Micheal Jackson went from Motown and R&B to Sony and the "King of Pop". They'll let us be the face of it, but the soul was taken out of it. Our music in the 60s and 70s had us ready to fight the power. In the 80s, with the crack either you were banging, using, or trying to get that Cosby prosperity and play 'Thriller' in your luxury car.

Our motives and morals all changed once we got snatched up at a music level. They got to assign images and morals to our Black brand, and then here we are where "Hip Hop" is molly rap and shoot em ups, but Katy Perry and Juicy J can do a song together so she can be lent his Black street cred.

Pimping the "Butterfly", usually a word for an Illuminati puppet. And the deal with Lucy to come out here and have to sacrifice your soul to get some money, that you aint even end up getting because of Uncle Sam. Most artist have fallen victim to it.

This album operates on so many levels, damn near flawlessly.