Yes I am tired of defending VooDoo, and therefore, I do not. I have been defending real hiphop since I saw commercialism sweep through hiphop, kicking up the perverbial dust and blind everyone. The thing is that most people probably won't like VooDoo, and if they read the liner notes, will wonder what the guy is talking about. They will probably get angry and say that D' is conceited, and that his music isn't that good to begin with. I know that that is a load of crap, but at this point I also know that I would be an idiot to get mad about it anymore.<BR>You see, most people are stupid, plain and simple. People like D'Angelo, the Roots, Common, Redman... and their true fans are different. We are visionaries on a completely different level. as elitist and pretentious as it may sound, True hip-hoppers are better than those people content to follow the media machine. We can resist hype and think for outselves, where other have a significantly harder time. I am not saying that we do not nod our heads to the latest dance track or anything like that. What I am saying is that we can take a track and examine it, the hidden message, the instruments used, and know why they are used. We are those people who listened to Common's(cence) I Used To Love H.E.R. and knew exactly what he was talking about before he told us. And believe it or not, there are scores of people out there who think that he was talking about a lady even though he said that he was talking about hip-hop. those are the people that will not buy VooDoo. Those people run from anything that may invoke a thought, or a feeling.<BR>I used to get mad when people told me that Chico Debarge could sing, or when they told me that he was original. I used to really go off when they told me that he was better than D, but no more. Now I just smile, bow my head and say a prayer for them, hoping that one day they will realize the foolishness of their statement and way of thought.<P>Take pride in your beliefs and in your taste for you are one of a select group. It is we who must unite and carry on the torch for Hip-Hop, because the mainstream can not, and if they could then it wouldn't be that special.