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it's easy to say berry and the funk bros. "executed" now. they were successful.
had they not been successful (which easily could have happened) they would have been niggas that needed to get a job.
>Funk Brothers Idea to form a label. There idea was to make >music. > >BG executed on making a label. FBs executed on making music. > > >There are plenty of drunk musicians, that doesn't make them >less executioners. > >Like there are also plenty of dudes who try to start record >labels that are executioners and fail. > > > >Being an executioner doesn't gaurantee you becoming rich and I >agree that the executioners of BG and the Executioners of >Musicians coming together created something greater than any >of them could have done on their own. > > > >>but for berry gordy, james jamerson would have been a >>penniless >>drunk who was good at bass guitar, but never "executed." >> >>all "ideas," no execution. >> >>fact: in many cases, "execution" requires "money." >>and after the money, comes the ppl that can frame the idea >>in a context that the public can recognize as valuable. >> >>often, the difference between a hopeless dreamer >>and an artistic genius is the right packaging, the right >>timing. >> >>that, in and of itself, i don't have a problem with. >>the problem is that hopeless dreamers often get a bad rap. >>you only get called a genius if the shit you do works. >> >>if the shit you do doesn't work, or stops working, >>you get put into the hopeless dreamer category. >>consider MJ between then end of his J5 run and his first few > >>aimless albums on CBS with the Jacksons vs. >>MJ post OTW, post thriller. >> >>or the difference between the PR he got for Thriller >>and the PR he got for Bad. >> >> >>many of our most important cultural acheviments came from >>ppl that are, in many ways, hopeless dreamers, and those ppl >>could not have been able to create works of genius had they >>not had a part of them that was a hopeless dreamer. >> >>(SEE ALSO: prince, in any year besides 1984) >> >> >> >>we need hopeless dreamers just as much as we need their >>benefactors. >> >> >>and benefactors usually get the credit anyway, >>so i am in this post sticking up for the dreamers. >> >> >> > > >********** >"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then >they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson > >"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant" > >Movies I need y'all bastids to see so we can discuss: > >Five Star - https://goo.gl/jBHbVv >Appro
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