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Topic subjectRE: you are proven more and more to be a simple minded fucktard lol
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2701011, RE: you are proven more and more to be a simple minded fucktard lol
Posted by vee-lover, Sun May-20-12 03:32 PM
>But ?uest has often NOT provided good insight when it comes to
>D'Angelo. This is well known... I would think that just about
>everybody but the hardest brainwashed stan would dab a lit
>smidgen of salt on ?uest's D'Angelo raves.

wtf? Quest has routinely been the one person who spoken honestly abt D'angelo...whether it be his procrastination, his personal matters, and why he and D'angelo fell out. I've heard these things from his own mouth, you're trying to act like Questlove is some D'angelo stan who's unable to speak objectively abt him...
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>But anyway... listen to what you're saying: You've not
>actually used your own mind to try to compute some sort of
>valid reason why ?uest's statement makes sense... You have
>just essentially said "Well... I'm sure ?uest has a good
>reason to say what he said, and I'm going to accept it on
>faith because he's The Mighty ?uestlove. Fuck thinking for
>myself!"

I've already given my opinion on what I think constitutes a pure artist and I can see why Quest would say that in reference to D'angelo - even though he didn't state in the article why he thinks that is.
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>>I guess I'm to assume you'd rather ppl listen to your
>opinions
>>since you are a nobody, huh?
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>Actually, I'm not a nobody and I have had many people listen
>to and pay for my opinions for many years. But that's neither
>here nor there. I'd not rather people listen to my opinions...
>I'd rather they use their own brains, ears and eyes to look
>around them and see that it is plainly obvious that there are
>thousands of "pure" (however you wanna define that)
>African-American artists working today, making art on a daily
>basis and the notion that the only "pure" African-American
>artist is a guy who has not made art in 10 years.

lmao - you cited independent and jazz artists to prove your point. Now how many mainstream artists can you label as "pure?"...I want to see how pure these artists are you're talking abt when they're signed to a major label that may not allow them to put out the music of their choice...and let me see if they can resist label demands and not compromise their art.

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>"Pure" artists MAKE ART. They don't spend a decade fucking
>around while others make excuses for why they're not making
>art.

His well documented personal problems were a big reason for his decade long hiatus...and as the article pointed out, it wasn't as if he wasn't making music. I'm sure he has tons of unreleased material