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2701048, there's no goal post moving, you just don't comprehend too well Posted by vee-lover, Sun May-20-12 05:04 PM
>>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... > >Questlove said that D'Angelo was playing guitar on the same >level as Frank Zappa.
first off, did you even read the article since you've stated repeatedly that you haven't, yet, you're commenting on what was said in the article as if you have. Secondly, I didn't read that as Quest comparing his guitar playing to Zappa but more abt the fact they're both self taught guitarist. Coult be wrong but that's how I read it because the article talked abt how D'angelo has threw himself into teaching himself how to play the guitar. > >Frank Zappa. Do you know who that is?
isn't he a comic book hero?
>>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. > >Did ?uest say that D'Angelo was the last pure MAINSTREAM >African-American artist, or did he just say he was the last >pure African-American artist?
I mean this is where common sense has to come in to play lol. How does anyone speak for all the 10s of thousands of independent and unheard artists out there vis-a-vis their purity lol. Even when we discuss artists in general on this board, we're talking abt artists who the vast majority of ppl can reference. > >I must have missed where he said "mainstream" (or where he >specifically ruled out jazz, blues, rock and every other genre >except for "urban")... unless you are just trying to move the >posts and add qualifiers that weren't there in order to >preserve your point.
smh > >(Even then, your argument still fails... because there are >other "pure" African-American artists in the mainstream... who >actually record and release music!)
who? name names? > >>>"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 > >LOL I'm sure. > >Art is a process that is completed when the work is delivered >to the audience. If you write a novel and put it in a drawer, >it's technically unfinished. Are you really an artist if you >are not putting your work in front of an audience... or are >you a hobbyist?
No its not, art is art, whether its put out for commercial consumption or not. The music can be released posthumously as is the case w/many artists. >
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