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15367, RE: Common vs B.Kyle ~ The Interpretation!
Posted by guest, Thu Jul-26-01 09:56 AM
I don't see the "dead men" as actually dead people from the past, but people like everyone else who go about their business not stopping to appreciate what they have inside them already. Maybe they've been abused and are now blinded to the gift of love The Creator gave them. Or maybe they just don't want to look inside themselves and take the bad with the good.

But like all good art that challenges you, Hip hop and especially the lyrics can cause you to open your eyes to see who you truely are. That's what its done for me with lyrics like

"I can give a damn if my fam recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live my life in the sight of God's memory . . ." Mos Def

or the way the music hits you, like what do you feel when the finger snaps come in on the begining of Act Too (The love of my Life)or the bass line or when Marie Daulne (refer to liner notes from Things Fall Apart) erie bgv comes in.

Personaly music affects me alot, but anything(including Hip Hop)
that can open your eyes to the truth is always good in my book.

I'm Joe Moreno and that's my interprettyation