>some
>of you may think the
>LWFC production exceeds Roots production,
>but I don't. Beat-wise, I
>think TFA kills LWFC.

I know when LFWC came out a lot of Roots comparisons were thrown around but my question was always why? The albums are so different there almost opposittes.

If artists just made albums a certain way because their fans told them to, they wouldn't be very good artists. If Ice Cube listened to his fans he probably never would have made AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (How many N.W.A. heads wanted to see the group's most talented member leave and go to New York?). If Common wants to make sample free albums just let him be. I think a lot of the "critics" here lose credibility when they call an album they haven't heard yet wack. I hope you would rather have an artist grow and change then just remake his second album over and over again. That would put Common on the same level as Bone Thugs N Harmony.

You can criticize backpackers all you want but when I hear things like "This album that I haven't heard yet is wack cuz it has no samples" you sound even shallower.

-Ryan

"Police don't sweep to get the dust out
They want your name in the system,
I need to mention the death penalty is
legal lynchin
People listen, they got teenagers up in
the line up
To fill the new facility they built,
they need the crime up
Please, the war on drugs is really war
on the youth
War on the people
War on the truth
The violent crimes rise,
the silent dies as sirens cry through
the night
People fight for what's left and not
what's right"

-Talib Kweli