it would have been an erroneous physics equation. but acccording to common it becomes a metaphysical cycle

electic wire = energy

hustle = work (gritty raw work in particular)

flower = beauty

energy or being energized (inspired) leads to the capacity to put in work in a struggle towards beauty. beauty of course creates further energizing/inspiration and it is through this cycle that we grow on as human beings. actually this cycle is appears elsewhere too. the artists struggle to create something original that expresses his individual statement. even the refining of government. think of all the struggle that has taken place and continues to take place just in an attempt to realize the beauty of the words written in the constituion. there always has to be some struggle that we must have the momentum to make it through, but on the other side of that struggle is always something beautiful.

i am sure some will say i am reaching, but that is because these are the same people who are only comfortable if they can agree with everyone else on what a song is about, what a particular movie meant, or what definitive statement is being made in any other form of expression. just as we all look at god and see a different abstraction, the same can happen with music. i have to say i like flower more than power as that last word because power would have made the hook sound like some call to arms or political rally...but instead the song is more or less about the circle of life, about the creation of art itself.

i would rather hear a theme I have never heard before in music or an original take on an old theme than be hit over the head with the same stuff...but it is only the same stuff that people recognize. but the days when the average listener of hip was fifteen and needed clear cut songs that make clear cut statements are all but over. i think there is too much of a desire for heads to like definitive themes in their music, as it is easier to put that song in a box. we all know what "brenda's got a baby" is about and when hip hop was in its adolescence it made sense that hip hop would stick to expressing rather familiar themes in its own voice...but as hip hop matures into adulthood it appears to have a choice...the road more or less travelled. i know everyone isn't ready but fuck everyone else because i am.

BTW, they are using Common's album to do the interludes between news segments on NPR.

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if hip hop ever dies...it will be the day that all of us who fell in love with a new sound that was like nothing we ever heard before and kept being amazed as it grew and changed and morphed stop wanting to be challenged...it will be the day we make a bunch of unbreakable rules and accept it all as hip hop cannon, and the next musical form will have to born of a rebellion against all you reactionaries who wouldn't let it grow and change because your "love" was really obsession and you held on so tight that you choked her. it will be the day that young kids don't want to hear about hip hop anymore because they still listen with their hearts...in reality hip hop won't really be dead anyway, she will just have to undergo another name change like she always has...word to miles and dizzy. - kacy wilson

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if hip hop ever dies...it will be the day that all of us who fell in love with a new sound that was like nothing we ever heard before stop wanting to be challenged. the day those of us who nurtured