Why is an artist who released soul food like "Like Water For Chocolate" messing around with half-assed beat makers like Kanye and Will.I.Am?
Kanye is just a Wanna-be and he will always be nothing but that.
Yes, he did make his name shine by making a lot of white ladies (and shamefully, also some young brothers and sisters,) shake their booty to his so-called-soulful beats, but does that really make him deserve all the props?
Shit that he did on BE literally made me sick because he was TRYING HARD to sound like something or someone he is not.
All that fake emotions and nothing from the heart..
And Will.I.Am, is one of the very reasons behind the "whiteification" of black music.
Don't even start with the BBE shit that he did from way back.
Just a glimpse of this clown, puppet dancing on MTV with Fergie and his other fellow friends is enough to make me think; 'this cat is out of his Goddamn mind¡¯.
And now he shouts "Hip-Hop is dead" with Nas?
How ironic is that?

"If he lose his soul, what can a nigga gain?" - Common on "Dooinit" from "Like Water For Chocolate"

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Rest in peace, James Y.
Rest in peace, James B.