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Whatever critique I have of the production on Q.U.E.E.N. Janelle is really fighting for her identity as a black woman. I know folks probably tuned out but the rap at the end is so fucking heartfelt.
Badu still doing what Badu do. That video with glasper doing "Danger" kills.
I'm still holding out full praise for Lion Babe but optimistically so.
Laura Mvula just walked in the room and threw down a full house. Watching her live videos with the full band... sheeit. Killer.
Alice Smith's album is steady in rotation. It has some really amazingly good songs, which show in the stripped down live versions she's been doing with one accompaniment (keys or guitar).
Valerie June is holding on to her southern roots music strong and doing it from the heart. Again her live sets show she doesn't have to get it, she just is it.
And then there's Lauryn Hill.
Yall realize that she just did one of the most 'revolutionary' things in hip-hop ever?
Put all of your being tired of her or thinking that she's washed up aside and put her actions in context.
She was part of one of the best selling group hip-hop albums ever. She had one of the top selling debut albums. During this rise to fame everyone tries to industry-ize her. She resists. But contractually she's already been industry-ized. She has ontractual obligations to keep making the labels money. Upon realizing this, rather than go back to what worked for her before, she picks up an acoustic guitar and releases a double live album of new material with just that.
Label's like yeah that was cute and all but you still owe us. In the midst of that she has kids by a Marley, which ties into her mythos which should be noted is shaped by her mind which has been poisoned in the pro-black rap era (© AFKAP). And its a hodge podge of these 'beliefs' that are shaping her perspective.
In the cours of this she prolly reads something about the evils of the tax system and skips paying. Shit she's got kids and shouldn't someone else be handling that anyway. Besides fuck saatan's tricks. Right.
She's moving around with her family which consists of her kid and not husband (entendre). Trying to keep the music going whenever she can, but not to fulfill any contracts mind you but because music is in her. When the need arises she pulls together a band and does a few live dates.
During this whole period mind you the label can't monetize her for shit. They own her but they can't monetize her for shit. When you think about that, it's pretty amazing.
Fast forward to now and she gets hit with tax evasion charges and found guilty. The label is like AHA!! Now we gotcha! So they say to the judge hey we've got million dollar contracts with this woman. She can make us bread if she's not in jail. And the judge is like cool if yall gon vouch for her I'll let her stay out of jail but she gotta stay working for yall. She got 30 days to comply.
Now it would seem as a mother and all that the wise thing is to stay out of jail and comply. But complying would be making the label money which she really still ain't changed her mind to heavy on. So what does she do?
Rather than go back to the tried and true little strong black woman pop ditty that the label is begging for, she goes back to that pro-black rap era and drops this poison (pleas read this shit):
We're living in a joke time, metaphorical coke time Commerce and guru men, run the whole world man Drunken debauchery, old world brutality Cold world kills softly, whole world runs savagely Reading into prior things, program TV screens Quick scam and drag queens, real likely to blast fiends Think twice and past dreams, crime if you ask clean Quick fast, for poison has entered the blood stream Psychological master, consequences of tragedy Mythological characters, men and women is parody Superficial the vanity, borderline the insanity Out of order humanity, crime committed so passively Desperados and casualties, corporations want batteries Explanations of strategies, domination and mastery Own zones and the bankrupt grown people, so corrupt Vice lords and yellow men, junkies and popularity Culture so independent, vultures scavenge reality Past, feel the depravity, decaying social cavity Preying on human ignorance, popular immorality Sympathy, disease head, population misled Self indulgent past dead, absence of the God head Pimps, pushers and, Nepotism, no artistery Despotism and privacy Desperation, dishonesty Physicist is your policy, more money, less equality Inflated global ego, imitating reality Fuel cycle pharaoh, poisonous poison arrows Hypocritics on salary, idle hands that was agency Predisposed to complacency, jealousy, audacity Contagious social gluttony, stages of mass belignency Effort to make conception, generation in atrophy Glam life in debt, scam life in editors Byproducts of neglect children hiding from crediters Absence of self respect, fully scared of competitors Lifestyle of luxury at someone's expense Sensitive children, used up and sacrificed Blind to the consequence, smoked up on dope pipes Ecstasy, fast life, recklessly past life Narcotics and cash fight in this neurotic society Benefactors turned actors, addictions triple captors Experience manufactures in this neurotic toxic society
It's like post-war, they looking for the commenters or who the marxs is Ten thousand pictures on Facebook, it's like the pot callin' the kettle narcissist Come on really, sayin' it's the devil, but you're the chief arsonist Hypocrites can't even see their own part in it No reflection, vampire paradigm No introspection, break down Three months before pure obsession, picture can't take down Children, this a shake down, they just lookin' for a sacrifice They been doin' this since before Bobby Darin sang Mack the Knife Before James Dean's car did a jack knife Perhaps it's because they lack life or lack guts Never confuse the head with the butt Opinions are like assholes and most of 'em stink I was told by a woman, so rethink, don't ever let them ever lead you to drink Leave you to doubt, lead you to fall Get up, stand us, pass Lucifer out Shake it up baby, watch them twist it and shout Insecure assholes lookin' for a ticket To ride on somebody like the picket, it's fuckin' wicked, shame on 'em This neurotic toxic society
Sick cycle psychology in desperate need of psychiatry Exorcism, sobriety, forcin' social lobotomies People stuck in dichotomies, pseudo-sicko anxieties Serial criminals dressed in variety Social transvestisms, subliminal dressed up as piety Transforms projections like Cartesian images Robbing innocence, stealing inheritance Quiet victims with no defense portrayed over dollars and cents Maladjusted ignorant malediction and dissonance Too much addiction, no consciousness Don't trust it, this cosmology is busted Broken returns to the dusted, stems of corruption Oppression, deceit, abuse and repeat They don't feel complete unless they're robbin' the sheep Man is not a product if you call it that then stop it In this neurotic godless society
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I don't think yall heard her cause she just killt the whole of modern society. And what happens. Judge and Sony are like GTFOHWTBS!! And she's headed to jail. She's going to jail for those verses. Sure she's going to jail for tax evasion, but she could have evaded jail if she hadn't spit them verses. Killer.
█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃ Big PEMFin H & z's "I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." © Miles
"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
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